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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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La Pira, Gioacchino
Active in Naples between 1839 and 1870.
View of Naples from Posillipo.
Gouache on wove paper. Signed lower right.
H 28,
Between 1839 and 1870, Gioacchino La Pira captured on numerous gouaches the sights of Naples and Campania, which were a must-see for the travellers of the Grand Tour. Both scenic highlights, such as the smoking Vesuvius or the wildly romantic island of Capri, and ancient sites, such as the excavations of Pompeii, were among his motifs. The present work shows the view from the hill Posillipo, which in the
Provenance: estate Curt Edgar Schreiber, former managing director of the watch factory Mauthe, Schwenningen, and successors. 
La Pira, Gioacchino
Tätig in Neapel zwischen 1839 und 1870.
Blick vom Posillipo auf Neapel.
Gouache auf Velin. U.r. sign.
H.
Gioacchino La Pira hielt zwischen 1839 und 1870 auf zahlreichen Gouachen die Sehenswürdigkeiten Neapels und Kampaniens fest, die für die Reisenden der Grand Tour zum Pflichtprogramm gehörten. Sowohl landschaftliche Höhepunkte, wie der rauchende Vesuv oder die wildromantische Insel Capri, als auch antike Stätten, wie die Ausgrabungen von Pompeji gehörten zu seinen Motiven. Die vorliegende Arbeit zeigt den Blick vom Hügel Posillipo, der im
Provenienz: Nachlass Curt Edgar Schreiber, ehemaliger Geschäftsführer der Uhrenfabrik Mauthe, Schwenningen, und Nachfolge.