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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Image under artist's copyright. | 3006 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hofer, Karl 1878 Karlsruhe - 1955 Berlin. «Blumenwerfende Mädchen (girls throwing flowers)». Around 1924. Oil on canvas. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3088 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Förg, Günther 1952 Füssen - 2013 «Micha». 1983. Colour photograph on photo paper, verso on ... | starting price: 4800,- EUR | ||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2026 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Heider-Schweinitz, Maria von 1894 Darmstadt - 1974 Frankfurt a.M. «Wald-Arendse [sic] (forest Arendsee)». View of a forest against the light in ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2035 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Kokoschka, Oskar 1886 Pöchlarn - 1980 Montreux. Chestnut branch. Watercolour on strong chamois wove paper. Signed lower left and ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2049 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Löwengard, Kurt 1895 Hamburg - 1940 London. «Kirche und Stadt (church and town)» from «Das Neue Hamburg». 1923. Woodcut on ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2057 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Schuch, Bruno Active in Berlin, 1920s to 1950s. Portrait Otto Mueller. 1928/29. Silver gelatin print on chamois baryta paper. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2060 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Rädecker, John (Johannes Anton) 1885 Amsterdam - 1956 ibid. Two owls. Black and green patinated bronze. Monogrammed and dated (19)24 on the ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2063 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Schön, Otto 1893 Suhl - 1971 Göppingen. «Das Gesetz (the law)». Pastel on chamois wove paper. Signed lower right and dated ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2072 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Wauer, William (Ernst Hermann) 1866 Oberwiesenthal - 1962 Berlin. Framed composition. Coloured chalk and pencil on brownish wove paper. Signed ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2185 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Zhu, Jinshi Born 1954 Beijing, lives and works in Beijing. «Box in the corner». Acrylic on canvas. Verso on the stretcher ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2216 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Galli, i.e. Harald Gallasch Born 1949 Dresden, lives and works in Taunusstein. «am 10. II. 3/05». Mixed media with acrylic, charcoal and ... | |||
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3185 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Babberger, August 1885 Hausen i. Wiesental - 1936 Altdorf. Head with aureole. After 1920. Polychrome and golden glass mosaic on ... | ||||
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3284 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Parlo, Percy 1890 Petznick/Pomerania - 1967 Steinebach. «Viry sur Orge». Oil on cardboard. Signed lower right and badly ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2151 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Wiegers, Jan 1893 Kommerzijl - 1959 Amsterdam. Sitting female nude, turning away from the viewer. Pastel over charcoal on ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2085 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Galli, d.i. Harald Gallasch Born 1949 Dresden, lives and works in Taunusstein. «Stillleben (still life)». Acrylic on masonite. Verso ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2027 (Autumn Auctions Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig 1880 Aschaffenburg - 1938 Frauenkirch. «Erna mit Katze (Erna with cat)». Pencil on paper. Unsigned. Minor ... | starting price: 5000,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2031 (Autumn Auctions Krauskopf, Bruno 1892 Marienburg - 1960 Berlin. «Mutter und Kind (mother and child)». Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Verso on ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2034 (Autumn Auctions Mammen, Jeanne 1896 Berlin - 1976 ebd. «Stehende Frau im Unterrock (woman wearing underskirt)». Circa 1925. Pencil on paper. ... | starting price: 8000,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2036 (Autumn Auctions Mammen, Jeanne 1896 Berlin - 1976 ebd. Portrait of a woman. | starting price: 1200,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2039 (Autumn Auctions Meurs, Harmen Hermanus 1891 Wageningen - 1964 Ermelo. «Port de la Meule». Ink and charcoal on paper. Signed and inscribed «Port de la ... | starting price: 1500,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2057 (Autumn Auctions Wiegers, Jan 1893 Groningen - 1959 Amsterdam. View across Ascona. Mixed media on paper. Signed and dated (19)37 and inscribed ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2008 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Buchheim, Lothar-Günther 1918 Weimar - 2007 Starnberg. E Upper Bavarian landscape. Watercolour on paper, mounted on cardboard. Signed lower ... | starting price: 2300,- EUR | ||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 1013 (Autumn Auctions Buchheim, Lothar-Günther 1918 Weimar - 2007 Starnberg. Upper Bavarian landscape. Watercolour on paper, mounted on cardboard. Signed lower ... | starting price: 4500,- EUR | ||
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2887 (Autumn Auctions Peters, Pieter Francis 1818 Nymwegen - 1903 Stuttgart. Wooded landscape with horse carriage. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 1881 lower ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 1777 (Spring Auctions Kiefer, Ernst F.W. 1898 Konstanz - 1967 Radolfzell. E Portrait of a young lady with ginger hair. Gouache on paper. Monogrammed ´Kª ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1826 (Spring Auctions Riedlin, Adolf 1892 Laufen - 1969 Freiburg i.Br. E Portrait of August Kayser. Oil on canvas. Signed upper right. Verso with ... |
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