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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1418 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Collection of 18 gold coins Gold 916,6 and 900. Three 20 Marks, German Empire, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, 1897, 1900 and 1913; Two 20 ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2133 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Feininger, Lyonel 1871 New York - 1956 ibid. Steamer. Watercolour and charcoal on paper, mounted on backing cardboard at the upper ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2134 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Feininger, Lyonel 1871 New York - 1956 ibid. «Distance». Watercolour and ink on paper, mounted on backing cardboard at the upper ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2135 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Feininger, Lyonel 1871 New York - 1956 ibid. Two steamer ships. Watercolour and ink on paper, mounted on backing cardboard at the ... | |||
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3267 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Hartmann, Joseph Adam 1812 Lütter/Rhön - 1885 Darmstadt. Two counterparts. Gentleman with upturned collar. Lady with sapphire ... | ||||
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1317 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) André Hessen verge pocket watch France circa 1790. Yellow gold 18k. Round case. Enamel dial with Roman minute scale and Arabic minute ring, Beetle and ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2017 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Feininger, Lyonel 1871 New York - 1956 ibid. Steamer. Watercolour and charcoal on paper, mounted on backing cardboard at the upper ... | starting price: 25000,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2018 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Feininger, Lyonel 1871 New York - 1956 ibid. Two steamer ships. Watercolour and ink on paper, mounted on backing cardboard at the ... | starting price: 20000,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2019 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Feininger, Lyonel 1871 New York - 1956 ibid. «Distance». Watercolour and ink on paper, mounted on backing cardboard at the upper ... | starting price: 22000,- EUR | ||
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3014 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Large Empire candelabrum with serpent decoration Johann Martin Schott, Frankfurt a.M. circa 1820. Silver. Round foot, shaft with palmette decoration, relief depiction ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2014 (Autumn Auctions Feininger, Lyonel 1871 New York - 1956 Berlin. «Sunrise/Kleinstadt». 1911. Etching on Hosho laid cream paper. Signed lower left and ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2022 (Spring Auctions Feininger, Lyonel 1871 New York - 1956 Berlin. «Sunrise/Kleinstadt». 1911. Etching on Hosho laid cream paper. Signed lower left and ... | starting price: 10000,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2023 (Spring Auctions Feininger, Lyonel 1871 New York - 1956 Berlin. City view with church. Watercolour and India ink on ribbed (Vergé) paper by Ingres ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 1003 (Autumn Auctions Beckmann, Max 1884 Leipzig - 1950 New York. «Eislauf (skating)». 1922. Lithograph. Signed lower right in pencil. Passepartout. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1008 (Autumn Auctions Bosch, Harald Genre painter Düsseldorf 20th C. St. Martin's procession in Düsseldorf old town. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1009 (Autumn Auctions Bosch, Harald Genre painter Düsseldorf 20th C. Town hall square in Düsseldorf old town. Oil on canvas, without stretcher frame. ... | starting price: 300,- EUR | ||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 1047 (Autumn Auctions Grosz, George 1893 Berlin - 1959 ebd. Dunes and cottage, Cape Cod. 1949. Lithograph on paper. Signed lower right in pencil. Verso ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1049 (Autumn Auctions Hofer, Karl 1878 Karlsruhe - 1955 Berlin. Shipwreck. 1917. Lithograph. On the stone monogrammed and signed in pencil lower ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1054 (Autumn Auctions Kandinsky, Wassily 1866 Moskau - 1944 Neuilly. Oval-shaped composition. Aquatint in colours. Monogrammed and dated (19)25 in the ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1065 (Autumn Auctions Lebenov, H.M. Pushkin square Moscow. Watercolour on paper. Signed and dated 1954 lower right. Passepartout. Provenance: private ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1074 (Autumn Auctions Moderner Bildnismaler Modern portrait painter mid 20th C. Portrait of Peter Tschaikowsky. Oil on canvas. Remains of an inscription or ... | starting price: 300,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1077 (Autumn Auctions Parpan, Ferdinand attr. 1902 Alfortville - 2004 (?). Femme nue. Gilt cast stucco. Verso monogrammed. Provenance: private collection ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1078 (Autumn Auctions Pechstein, Hermann Max 1881 Zwickau - 1955 Berlin. Sitting nude. Lithograph on japon. Signed lower right in pencil. Discolouration, traces ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1079 (Autumn Auctions Picasso, Pablo 1881 Málaga - 1973 Mougins. «Les Bleus de Barcelona». 1963. Aquatint. Numbered 12/75 lower left and signed lower ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1081 (Autumn Auctions Picasso, Pablo 1881 Málaga - 1973 Mougins. «Quatre Danseurs». 1956. Ceramic plate in object box. Edition Madura. Object box. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1082 (Autumn Auctions Picasso, Pablo 1881 Málaga - 1973 Mougins. «Die Zwergtänzerin (the pigmy dancer)». Offset. Signed lower right in pencil. Watermark ... | starting price: 4500,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1091 (Autumn Auctions Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl 1884 Rottluff - 1976 Berlin. Title woodcut of the portfolio «Zehn Holzschnitte (ten woodcuts)». 1919. Woodcut. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1101 (Autumn Auctions Wagner, Franziska Born 1905 Ober-Schlesien. Egon von Armin at breakfast. Oil on masonite. Monogrammed and dated (19)49 lower left. ... |
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