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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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West, Mae
1893 - 1980.
American film actress and screenwriter. Photography from 1962, original dedication to bottom left; «To Rodger Sincerely Mae West». H. 20.4, W. 25,5 cm. In addition: Photograph circa 1961, with original signature and original envelope with address and date « A1C R. W. Cook, Travis Air Force Base, Cal, 27.7.1962». Several decorative reprints of Mae West photographs. Five original photographs of pre-War-Divas: Collier, Lois (1919 - 99), original photograph circa 1940, Gaal, Franciska (1901 - 72), Paramount photograph by Eugène Robert Richee, dat. Feb 10th, 1938, Loy, Myrna (1905 - 93), Film Still «To Mary - With Love», 1936; Morris, Mary (1915 - 88), Film Still «Prison Without Bars», 1938, Davies, Marion (1897 - 61), Metro Goldwyn Mayer, photography dat. 28.4.1932. Further reprints of the 1960s and 1970s after original negatives: Harlow, Jean, circa 1932, 8º, Garbo, Greta, circa1927, 8º; Lamarr, Hedy, circa 1939, 4º, Harlow, Jean, negative 1H 1930s, 8º. Nine reprints from «The Autographs Shop»: Crawford, Joan; Monroe, Marilyn; Wray, Fay (King Kong 1933); Bacall, Lauren; Bogart/Bacall, Humphrey; Presley, Elvis; Mansfield, Jayne, and one colour reprint of Jayne Mansfield.
1893 - 1980.
US-amerikanische Filmschauspielerin. Photographie von 1962, u.l. Originalwidmung «To Rodger Sincerely Mae West». H. 20.4, B. 25,5 cm.
Beigabe: Eine Photographie, ca. 1961, mit Originalunterschrift, dazu Originalbriefumschlag mit Anschrift sowie dat. « A1C R. W. Cook, Travis Air Force Base, Cal, 27.7.1962».
Mehrere dekorative Reprints von Fotos von Mae West.
Fünf Original-Photos von Vorkriegs-Divas: Collier, Lois (1919 - 99), Originalphoto ca. 1940, Gaal, Franciska (1901 - 72), Paramount Photo by Eugène Robert Richee, dat. Feb 10th, 1938, Loy, Myrna (1905 - 93), Film Still «To Mary - With Love», 1936; Morris, Mary (1915 - 88), Film Still «Prison Without Bars», 1938, Davies, Marion (1897 - 61), Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Photo dat. 28.4.1932.
Weitere Reprints der sechziger und siebziger Jahre nach Originalnegativen: Harlow, Jean, ca. 1932, 8º, Garbo, Greta, ca 1927, 8º; Lamarr, Hedy, ca 1939, 4º, Harlow, Jean, Negativ 1H 30er Jahre, 8º.
Beigegeben auch neue Abzüge von «The Autographs Shop»: Crawford, Joan; Monroe, Marilyn; Wray, Fay (King Kong 1933); Bacall, Lauren; Bogart, Humphrey; Presley, Elvis; Mansfield, Jayne, plus ein farbiger von Jayne Mansfield.
Es handelt sich hierbei um ein sehr schönes und einzigartiges Los, das sich in bunter Vielfalt präsentiert.