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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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Dornseif, Frank
Born 1948 Radevormwald, lives and works in Berlin and Temnitztal.
«o.T. (untitled)». Heads.
Two pieces. Framed drawing and sculpture. Coloured chalk and shoe prints on tracing paper, stapled and partially singed, mounted on backing cardboard at the upper margin. Signed lower right and dated (19)93. Sculpture of welded iron wire, on wooden base.
H 124,
H 68,
H 80,5,
Although the works have a common creative context, they were originally intended as solitaires. In the med art-collection they were united and since then, with a pedestal as the connecting element, have formed a unity in terms of content and form.
Authentication: We would like to thank the artist for the authentication via
Provenance: purchased at the Galerie Pro Arte, 
Dornseif, Frank
Geb. 1948 Radevormwald, lebt und arbeitet in Berlin und Temnitztal.
«o.T.». Köpfe.
2-tlg. Gerahmte Zeichnung und Plastik. Farbkreide und Schuhabdrücke auf Transparentpapier, getackert und teilweise angesengt, am oberen Rand auf Unterlagekarton montiert. U.r. sign. und (19)93 dat. Plastik aus geschweißtem Eisendraht, auf Holzsockel.
H.
H.
H. 80,5,
Obwohl die Werke einen gemeinsamen kreativen Entstehungszusammenhang haben, sind sie ursprünglich als Solitäre gedacht gewesen. In der med art-Sammlung wurden sie vereint und bilden seither mit einem Sockel als verbindendem Element eine inhaltliche und formale Einheit.
Echtheitsbestätigung: Wir danken dem Künstler für die Bestätigung der Echtheit via
Provenienz: erworben 1993 in der Galerie Pro Arte, Freiburg i.Br.; seitdem med art-Sammlung der HUG-Gruppe,