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Carl Spitzweg
5th February 1808 – 23th September 1885
Carl Spitzweg was born on 5th of February in 1808 in Unterpfaffenhofen, Bavaria. Although trained as a chemist, he discovered quite early his talent for drawing and his affinity with art. Spitzweg travelled extensively during his lifetime and the impressions formed by his travels greatly influenced his work. Shortly after completing his studies in pharmaceutics in 1832, he visited Italy. It was particularly in the cities of Florence, Rome, and Naples that he discovered the many significant works of Western culture which were to leave a permanent imprint on him.
A severe case of dysentery in 1833 strengthened his resolve to abandon his career as a chemist and he proceeded to commit himself solely to his painting. In June 1835, he became a member of the Munich Art Association and travelled that same year to southern Tirol with the landscape painter Eduard Schleich, the Elder.
In 1839 he completed his first painting entitled ''The Poor Poet'. Although this recurring motif would later be considered his most well-known body of work, the painting was not accepted at this time by the jury of the Munich Art Association.
As regards his graphic production, the first publication in 1844 of his own illustrations in the Munich weekly paper 'Fliegende Blätter' is considered quite significant. His visits to the Industrial Exposition in Paris and the World's Fair exhibition in London in 1851 were his first contact with the Oriental scenes which would begin to inform his work.
To the deserving painter were bestowed numerous honours during the second half of Spitzweg's lifetime: in 1865 the Bavarian Royal Merit Order of St. Michael was conferred upon him, and in 1875 he was named an honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts.
Carl Spitzweg died on 23th of September in 1885 and was entombed in the historic South Cemetery in Munich.
He leaves behind a body of work dedicated to the townspeople who inhibit his genre scenes, and with acute and pointed, but never ill-natured humour he portrays the everday bourgeois life of his time.
Lit: Siegfried Wichmann, Carl Spitzweg. Verzeichnis der Werke, Gemälde und Aquarelle, Stuttgart: Belser, 2002.
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Knoebel, Imi i.e. Klaus Wolf
Born 1940 Dessau, lives and works in Düsseldorf.
Six original editions from the cycle «Pure Freude I (pure joy I)».
2005. Acrylic on plastic sheet. Verso each numbered lower right 10/12 as well as the individual sheets numbered «1», «3», «4», «5», «6» und «7» lower left. Sheet 7 additionally signed verso lower middle, dated «2..5 (2005)» as well as inscribed «112+164» lower right. Sheet 1 additionally numbered verso lower right 4/40 and sheet 4 additionally numbered verso lower right 12/10. Verso on the back of the frame each with a printed label with the work's data.
H 50,
Works from an edition of 12 numbered copies.
«Pure Freude» is a punk record label started in 1979 by the landlady of the Düsseldorf punk mecca «Ratinger Hof», artist's wife Carmen Knoebel. «Pure Freude» is the name of a patisserie run by the artist's daughters in Düsseldorf. But «Pure Freude» is also an edition that Imi Knoebel developed as a series since 2001/02, preceded by numerous designs of the same name.
The title «Pure Freude» makes one think of Paul Klee, whose «Theory of the Purity of Colour» defines it as that which remains when all units of measurement disappear. In Knoebel's «Pure Freude» each colour appears monochrome on one element of the overall composition. It thus gains an intensity and freedom that makes it appear autonomous in relation to every other colour in the picture.
Knoebel's role model, Kazimir Malevich, whose Black Square of 1915 is seen by the painter - Knoebel describes himself as a painter rather than an artist - as the origin of modern painting, proclaimed as early as the beginning of the
Provenance: private collection Freiburg i.Br.
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