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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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Wilding, Ludwig
1927 Grünstadt - 2010 Buchholz.
«Single PS 7b». Lauf Objekt.
Serigraph on acrylic glass in front of a serigraph on cardboard with collage on masonite, in wooden object box. Verso signed, titled and dated 1971 on the artist's original label. Verso a label of the Galerie de Rijk Fine Art, Den Haag, with the work's data. Object box with slight signs of use.
H 80,
Unique work from the series PS (Prinzip Seriell (principle serial imagery)). A series of nine models (1 - 9), each with four variations (a - d).
«Ludwig Wilding's so-called Laufobjekte differ from pictures with geometric and coloured constructions in the field of perceptual art, optical art, externally by the superimposition of linear structures which are assembled through two spaced layers. The front transparent surface is the carrier of a periodic linear structure; the rear surface, on the other hand, is a compositionally interrupted system of circles, concentric or in a row, of squares, rectangles and stripes, grids of lines with different angles of inclination.» from: Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (Ed.), Prinzip Seriell, Lauf Objekte, Düsseldorf 1971.
The model PS 7 is characterized by squares with vertically directed parallels on a vertical parallel grid. Variation b contains 16 squares arranged at 9° or 171° angles on the rear surface.
We would like to thank Mrs Ingeborg Wilding-König, Buchholz, for the kind remarks via
Provenance: Galerie de Rijk Fine Art, Den Haag; Louiza, Brussels, 27.10.2012, lot 150; since then private possession South Germany.
Exhibition: Prinzip Seriell, Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, 10.12.1971 - 30.01.1972.
Literature: Friedrich W. Heckmanns, Prinzip Seriell, Lauf Objekte, Düsseldorf 1971. 
Wilding, Ludwig
1927 Grünstadt - 2010 Buchholz.
«Single PS 7b». Lauf Objekt.
Serigraphie auf Acrylglas vor Serigraphie auf Karton mit Collage auf Hartfaser, in Holzobjektkasten. Verso auf einem Originaletikett des Künstlers sign., bet. und 1971 dat. Verso ein Etikett der Galerie de Rijk Fine Art, Den Haag, mit den Angaben zum Werk. Objektkasten mit leichten Handhabungsspuren.
H.
Unikat aus der Serie PS (Prinzip Seriell). Eine Folge von neun Modellen (1 - 9) zu je vier Variationen (a - d).
«Die sogenannten Laufobjekte von Ludwig Wilding unterscheiden sich von Bildern mit geometrischen und farbigen Konstruktionen im Bereich der wahrnehmungsbezogenen Kunst, der optical art, äußerlich dadurch, daß die Überlagerung linearer Strukturen hier durch zwei abständige Ebenen erfolgt. Dabei ist die vordere durchsichtige Fläche Träger einer periodischen linearen Struktur; auf der hinteren Fläche hingegen ist ein als Komposition unterbrochenes System angebracht von Kreisformen, konzentrisch oder gereiht, von Quadraten, Rechtecken und Streifen, Linienrastern von unterschiedlichem Neigungswinkel.» aus: Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (Hrsg.), Prinzip Seriell, Lauf Objekte, Düsseldorf 1971.
Das Modell PS 7 zeichnet sich durch Quadrate mit vertikal gerichteten Parallelen auf einem senkrechten Parallelraster aus. Die Variation b enthält 16 Quadrate, die in 9° bzw. 171° Winkel auf der hinteren Fläche angebracht sind.
Wir danken Frau Ingeborg Wilding-König, Buchholz, für die freundlichen Hinweise via
Provenienz: Galerie de Rijk Fine Art, Den Haag; Louiza, Brüssel, 27.10.2012, Los 150; seitdem Privatbesitz Süddeutschland.
Ausstellung: Prinzip Seriell, Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, 10.12.1971 - 30.01.1972.
Literatur: Friedrich W. Heckmanns, Prinzip Seriell, Lauf Objekte, Düsseldorf 1971.