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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.

Carl Spitzweg

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Herbstauktionen 19.–20.10.2018
Mantegna, Andrea
1431 Isola Mantegna, früher Isola di Carturo - 1506 Mantua.
«Bacchanal mit Weinpresse (Bacchanal with wine press)». Engraving. Verso collector's stamp «Jung». Mounted on cardboard at the upper margin. Complemented. Heavily restored.
H 31, W 44,5 cm (sheet). Unframed.
Rare incunabulum by one of the most important early Renaissance Italian masters.
Provenance: Collection Richard Jung; since then private possession Freiburg i.Br.
The collection of the Freiburg neurophysiologist Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Richard Jung includes over 729 sheets of historic graphics that came together during his longstanding, extensive activities as a collector. Besides drawings from Central European artists before 1800, also some prints of the Renaissance are covered. After his death, most of the collection - apart from selected works in private possession - has been handed over to the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe and the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, who dedicated an exhibition to the collector Richard Jung in the year 1990.
Catalogue raisonné: Bartsch 19.

deutsch 1431 Isola Mantegna, früher Isola di Carturo - 1506 Mantua.
«Bacchanal mit Weinpresse». Kupferstich. Verso Sammlungsstempel «Jung». Am oberen Rand auf Karton montiert. Erg. Stark altrest.
H. 31, B. 44,5 cm (Blattgröße). Ungerahmt.
Seltener Frühdruck von einem bedeutsamen Vertreter der oberitalienischen Frührenaissance.
Provenienz: Sammlung Richard Jung; seitdem Privatbesitz Freiburg i.Br.
Die Sammlung des Freiburger Neurophysiologen Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Richard Jung umfasst über 729 Blätter historischer Grafiken, die während seiner jahrelangen, extensiven Sammlertätigkeit zusammengetragen wurden. Neben Zeichnungen zentraleuropäischer Künstler vor 1800 sind auch einige Drucke aus der Renaissance enthalten. Nach seinem Tod wurde die Sammlung - abgesehen von ausgewählten Stücken in Privatbesitz - großteils an die Kunsthalle Karlsruhe und die Staatsgalerie Stuttgart übergeben, welche im Jahre 1990 dem Sammler Jung eine Ausstellung widmeten.
Werkverzeichnis: Bartsch 19.
 

hammer price: 500,- EUR
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