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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0706 (Spring Sale Tafelaufsatz | starting price: 1100,- EUR | |||
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1739 (Spring Sale Alter Meister Öl/Lw., doubl. Vornehm gekleidete Dame, auf einem Balkon mit Blick auf idyllische Landschaft ... | ||||
1802 (Spring Sale Schütz, Christian Georg I Vor 1718 Flörsheim - 1791 Frankfurt a.M. Öl/Lw., doubl. Idyllische, zwischen Bergen mäandrierende Flusslandschaft ... | starting price: 9000,- EUR | |||
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0272 (Autumn Sale Konfektmuschel England Ende | ||||
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0318 (Autumn Sale Seltener Empire-Leuchter Frankreich um 1790 - 1800. Silber. Auf vier Füßen, trommelförmiger Sockel, Balusterschaft mit Strebepfeilern, ... | ||||
0319 (Autumn Sale Seltener Empire-Leuchter Wohl Frankreich oder deutsch um 1810. Silber. Auf drei ausgestellten Füßen, hexagonaler Sockel mit konkav gebogten ... | ||||
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0482 (Autumn Sale Putto als Bäcker Meißen 1860 - 1924. Porzellan, glasiert und bemalt. Auf Rocaillesockel, auf gemauertem Herd sitzender Putto mit ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | |||
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0670 (Autumn Sale Seltenes Flötenglas Wohl Böhmen | ||||
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0687 (Autumn Sale Prunkteller 18./ | ||||
0696 (Autumn Sale Fächerplatte Wohl Hanau | starting price: 1200,- EUR | |||
0698 (Autumn Sale Fächerplatte Wohl Hanau | starting price: 1200,- EUR | |||
0705 (Autumn Sale Bartschale Delft | starting price: 600,- EUR | |||
0710 (Autumn Sale Paar Bodenvasen | starting price: 3500,- EUR | |||
0711 (Autumn Sale Tafelaufsatz | starting price: 2200,- EUR | |||
0721 (Autumn Sale Deckelvase | starting price: 600,- EUR | |||
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1481 (Autumn Sale Paar museale Wandspiegel mit Leuchterarm Italien um 1740 - 1750. Holz, geschnitzt, graviert und vergoldet. Rocaillierter Ovalrahmen, von üppig geschnitztem ... | ||||
1533 (Autumn Sale Seltener höfischer Spieltisch Deutsch um 1740. Nussbaum, Palisander, Zitronenholz und Mahagoni. Auf vier geschweiften Beinen mit in Voluten endenden ... | ||||
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2116 (Autumn Sale Alter Meister Öl/Lw., doubl. Vornehm gekleidete Dame, auf einem Balkon mit Blick auf idyllische Landschaft ... | starting price: 3500,- EUR | |||
2182 (Autumn Sale Schütz, Christian Georg I. Vor 1718 Flörsheim - 1791 Frankfurt a.M. Öl/Lw., doubl. Idyllische Flusslandschaft. Zwischen Bergen mäandrierender ... | ||||
2183 (Autumn Sale Schütz, Christian Georg I. Vor 1718 Flörsheim - 1791 Frankfurt a.M. Öl/Lw., doubl. Blick in weite Hügellandschaft. Im Vordergrund rastende ... | ||||
2184 (Autumn Sale Schütz, Christian Georg I. Vor 1718 Flörsheim - 1791 Frankfurt a.M. Öl/Lw., doubl. Idyllische, zwischen Bergen mäandrierende Flusslandschaft ... | starting price: 15000,- EUR | |||
2185 (Autumn Sale Schütz, Christian Georg I. Vor 1718 Flörsheim - 1791 Frankfurt a.M. Öl/Lw., doubl. Weite Flusslandschaft mit Fischern, Segelbooten und drei ... | ||||
2384 (Autumn Sale Moralt, Willy attr. 1884 München - 1947 Lenggries. Öl/Holz. An einem Gasthaus Halt machende Kutsche. Auf hölzerner Treppe Wirt, sie ... |
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