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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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Herbstauktionen 04.–05.10.2013
Prachtvolle und hochwertige Tiffany-Laburnum-Stehlampe
Magnificent and elaborate Tiffany Laburnum floor lamp. Tiffany Studios, New York circa 
Tiffany Studios, New York um
Die Tiffany-Lampen mit ihren Schirmen aus dem 1893 von Louis Comfort Tiffany entwickelten Favrile-Glas zählen zu den schönsten Jugendstilgläsern. Ihre wunderschönen, pflanzlichen Motiven nachempfundenen Kreationen avancierten rasch zum Markenzeichen der Glaskunst von Tiffany. Die Besonderheit des Favrile-Glases liegt dabei in seiner irisierenden Kraft, die Louis Comfort Tiffany auf antiken Gläsern in den Pharaonengräbern Ägyptens entdeckte. Durch Beimischung von Metallsalzen in die Glasschmelze konnte er ein außergewöhnlich schönes, edelsteinhaftes Leuchtlicht seiner Lampen erzeugen, welches den eigentlichen Ruhm seiner Favrile-Glas-Kreationen begründete.
Beurteilung: Dr. Martin Eidelberg, New York, 20.07.2013, zweiseitige, illustrierte Beurteilung anhand von Photos.
Dr. Eidelberg datiert die Stehlampe in einen Zeitraum zwischen 1906 und 1913, da sowohl der Laburnum-Lampenschirm als auch der Lampenfußtypus in dieser Zeit in der jährlichen Tiffany Studios Preisliste erscheinen. Allerdings sprechen seiner Meinung nach die Verarbeitung sowie Textur, Farbe und Design der Lampe für eine Entstehung zum Ende dieses Zeitrahmens.
Provenienz: Sotheby's, Auktion «Important
Rechnung: Sotheby's, New York, 06.08.1988, in Kopie.
Literatur: Jacob Baal-Teshuva, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Köln 2008,