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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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Gentz, Wilhelm
1822 Neuruppin - 1890 Berlin.
Portrait of a young Abyssinian lady in an oriental colourful skirt and a pale chemise with trumpet sleeves.
Oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard. Monogrammed lower right. Verso inscribed «W. Gentz» probably by Ismael Gentz, the artist's son, badly legible inscribed «Stein» by a different hand and a collection label handwritten inscribed with the work's data and the provenance.
H 36,
H 37,3,
«[...] Gentz created countless studies of people in various poses and garments, either partially or in their entirety, which were not included in his catalogue raisonné but were kept in portfolios at home. [...]Very typical is the excessively strong oil brushstroke in colours arranged under and over each other in the drapery of the skirt, which serves as an eye-catcher. The use of many and very bright colours is also characteristic of Gentz, who was considered a colourist. The thick, spread-out drops of colour produced intentionally by overpainting are characteristic and comparable to other Gentz sketches and studies. They are the painter's exercises in testing the effect in the painting. [...]» from: Irina Rockel, authentication verification, Vielitz, 05.09.2021.
Authentication verification: Dr. Irina Rockel, Vielitz, 05.09.2021.
We would like to thank Dr. Irina Rockel, author of the catalogue raisonné, Vielitz, for the scientific advice via
Provenance: according to the consignor purchased at Auktionshaus Carl F. Schlüter, Hamburg, in March 2002; since then private collection Hamburg and Markgräflerland.
Catalogue raisonné: The work will be listed in the upcoming addendum to the catalogue raisonné.
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