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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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Bilderuhr «Die Rückkehr Napoleons von der Insel Elba»
Picture wall clock «Napoleons Rückkehr von der Insel Elba» (Napoleon's return from Elba). After Carl August von Steuben, France circa 1815. Oil on canvas. Eight-day movement, striking on three gongs. Musical mechanism inscribed «R. Lecoultre». Original Empire frame. Good fully functional condition. Minor chipped. Pendulum.
The model for this picture clock, a painting executed by Carl von Steuben (1788 - 1856) in 1818, was a famous and frequently copied work even during the painter's lifetime. In addition to various other copies from different quality there are also etchings existing after this subject, which has been reproduced several times. Von Steuben was a pupil of François Gérard and achieved gaining importance as history painter.
Nach Carl August von Steuben, Frankreich um 1815. Öl auf Leinwand. Rechteckiger Rahmen, schauseitig Darstellung der Landung Napoleons in Cannes am 1. März 1815 als vielfigurige Szene. Bonaparte mit erhobener Hand im Bildzentrum, umringt von seinen Soldaten. Weißes Emailzifferblatt mit arabischer Minuterie, Stiftzeiger. Acht-Tage-Gehwerk mit Schlag auf drei Tonfedern. Auslösung eines separaten Walzenspiel- und Schlagwerks auf zwei Tonfedern. Auf Walzenspielwerk bez. «R. Lecoultre». Originaler Empire-Rahmen. Guter, funktionstüchtiger Zustand. Min. best.
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Die Vorlage zu dieser Bilderuhr, das Gemälde von Carl von Steuben (1788 - 1856), entstand 1818 und war bereits zu seinen Lebzeiten ein bedeutendes und häufig kopiertes Werk. Neben verschiedenen Kopien unterschiedlicher Qualität auf Leinwand existieren auch Stiche nach dem oft reproduzierten Motiv. Von Steuben war ein Schüler François Gérards und gelangte als Historienmaler bald zu eigener Bedeutung.