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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Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3079 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Dahmen, Karl Fred 1917 Stolberg - 1981 Preinersdorf. «Skriptum auf Grau (script on grey)». Mixed media with oil and sand on ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3081 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Dahmen, Karl Fred 1917 Stolberg - 1981 Preinersdorf. «Tele-Landschaft (tele-landscape)». Assemblage made of hair and colour over ... | starting price: 1600,- EUR | ||
Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2067 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Dahmen, Karl Fred 1917 Stolberg - 1981 Preinersdorf. Untitled. Mixed media with oil on burlap. Signed lower right. Verso signed ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2159 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Weber, Hermann Born 1959 Biberach a.d. Riß, lives and works in Berg/Palatinate and Rome. Untitled. Oil on canvas. Verso ... | |||
Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2029 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Weber, Robert Born 1964 Jena, lives and works in Berlin. Blue head with computer tomographies from «Convergence». Serigraph in ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2219 (Spring Auctions Völkle, Bernd Geb. 1940 Müllheim/Baden, lebt und arbeitet in Tannenkirch/Baden. «Flügel (gespannt) (wing (stretched))». ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 1379 (Autumn Auctions Weber, Hermann Born 1959 Biberach. «Masker XI». Mixed media and collage on paper. Numbered XI lower left in pencil. Upper left ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1380 (Autumn Auctions Weber, Willy Born 1932 Zürich. «Das war der Martinstag (that was St. Martin's day)». Nickel-plated steel plate. Verso titled ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1381 (Autumn Auctions Weber, Willy Born 1932 Zürich. Monochrome. Metal plate. Verso signed. Provenance: private collection. DDDDGeb. 1932 ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 1908 (Spring Auctions Weber, Peter Born 1945 Bismarckh¸tte. E Surreal landscape. Mixed media on cardboard. Signed lower right and dated (19)81. ... | |||
Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010 Silver and Silverware | ||||
0289 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Paar kunstvolle Tafelleuchter Meister Eduard Wollenweber, München Mitte | ||||
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1643 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Weber, (?) Miniaturmaler Ende Dorfszene mit Reitern. Gouache. Vor Fachwerkhaus in dörflicher Umgebung ... | ||||
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2005 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Weber, August 1817 Frankfurt a.M. - 1873 Düsseldorf. Ländliche Idylle. Öl/Lw. Vor einem zwischen hohen Eichen gelegenen ... | ||||
Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
2097 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Weber, August 1817 Frankfurt a.M. - 1873 Düsseldorf. Öl/Lw. Ländliche Idylle. Vor einem zwischen hohen Eichen gelegenen ... | ||||
2098 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Weber, Franz Landschaftsmaler 1. Hälfte Aquarell. Hafen. Vor einem Deich im Vordergrund zwei Dampfschlepper ... | ||||
Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2247 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Weber, Brigitte Landschaftsmalerin Ende Gouache. Landstraße. Zwischen kahlen Bäumen am Rande eines Feldes eine ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2248 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Weber, Brigitte Landschaftsmalerin Ende Gouache. Acker im Wald. Eingerahmt von Bäumen ein Feld. U.r. sign. und ... | |||
Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008 Paintings and Drawings 15th to 18th Century | ||||
1688 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Weber, C. Philip wohl Um 1849 Darmstadt - 1921 (?). Öl/Lw., doubl. An einem Bachlauf in idyllischer Landschaft sitzender Hirtenjunge mit ... | starting price: 1200,- EUR | |||
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2112 (Spring Sale Weber, Paul Gottlieb Daniel 1823 Darmstadt - 1916 München. Öl/Lw. An das Ufer eines Gebirgssees schäumende Gischt. Im Hintergrund ... | starting price: 1200,- EUR | |||
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2234 (Winter Sale Weber, T.A. Landschaftsmaler Öl/Lw. Blick auf eine ländliche Szene an einem baumbestandenen Seeufer, an ... | starting price: 1250,- EUR | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2530 (Winter Sale Weber, Andreas Paul 1893 Arnstadt - 1980 Schretstaken b. Mölln. Lithographie. «Die schwarze Ziege». Angekettete schwarze Ziege, in ... | starting price: 175,- EUR | ||
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2110 (Autumn Sale Weber, August 1817 Frankfurt a.M. - 1873 Düsseldorf. Öl/Lw., doubl. Rheinebene mit Kühen im Licht der untergehenden Sonne. U.l. ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2401 (Autumn Sale Weber, Andreas Paul 1893 Arnstadt - 1980 Schretstaken b. Mölln. Lithographie. «Die schwarze Ziege». Angekettete schwarze Ziege, in ... | starting price: 350,- EUR | ||
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2701 (Autumn Sale Weber, Carl Genremaler um 1900. Öl/Lw. Attacke des Federviehs. In die Stube eindringende Gänseschar, ein rücklings vom Schemel ... | ||||
2702 (Autumn Sale Weber, E. Landschaftsmaler 19./ Öl/Holz. Hirtenjunge mit seiner kleinen Schafherde auf einem von Bäumen ... |
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