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. | 1785 (Spring Auctions Kollwitz, K”the 1867 K–nigsberg - 1945 Moritzburg. E ´Weberzug (group of weavers). 1897ª. Drypoint. Unsigned. Lower left with blind ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 1787 (Spring Auctions Kollwitz, K”the 1867 K–nigsberg - 1945 Moritzburg. E ´Aufruhr (riot). 1899ª. Drypoint. Unsigned. In the plate with unreadable ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1788 (Spring Auctions Kollwitz, K”the 1867 K–nigsberg - 1945 Moritzburg. E ´Die Carmagnole (the Carmagnole). 1901ª. Drypoint with aquatint. In the plate ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1789 (Spring Auctions Kollwitz, K”the 1867 K–nigsberg - 1945 Moritzburg. E ´Brustbild einer Arbeiterfrau mit blauem Tuch (portait of a female worker with ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1790 (Spring Auctions Kollwitz, K”the 1867 K–nigsberg - 1945 Moritzburg. E ´Frauenkopf (head of a woman)ª. Etching and vernis mou. In the plate ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1791 (Spring Auctions Kollwitz, K”the 1867 K–nigsberg - 1945 Moritzburg. E ´Frauenakt (female nude)ª. Etching. Signature of printer ´Felsingª lower left ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1792 (Spring Auctions Kollwitz, K”the 1867 K–nigsberg - 1945 Moritzburg. E ´Ex Libris Mai 1908 Hans Kollwitzª. Etching with aquatint. In the plate titled ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1793 (Spring Auctions Kollwitz, K”the 1867 K–nigsberg - 1945 Moritzburg. E ´Das Bangen (Das Warten) (the trembling - the waiting)ª. Lithograph. Signed on ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1794 (Spring Auctions Kollwitz, K”the 1867 K–nigsberg - 1945 Moritzburg. E ´Mutter mit Kind auf dem Arm (mother with child)ª. Lithograph. On the stone ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1795 (Spring Auctions Kollwitz, K”the 1867 K–nigsberg - 1945 Moritzburg. E ´Selbstbildnis im Profil nach rechts (self portrait to the right). 1922ª. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1796 (Spring Auctions Kollwitz, K”the 1867 K–nigsberg - 1945 Moritzburg. E ´Kleines Selbstbildnis (small self portrait)ª. Lithograph. Unsigned. Verso ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1797 (Spring Auctions Kollwitz, K”the 1867 K–nigsberg - 1945 Moritzburg. E ´Kleines Selbstbildnis nach links (small self portrait to the left side). ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1798 (Spring Auctions Kollwitz, K”the 1867 K–nigsberg - 1945 Moritzburg. E ´Helft Russland (help Russia). 1921ª. Lithograph on laid paper. Signed lower ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1799 (Spring Auctions Kollwitz, K”the 1867 K–nigsberg - 1945 Moritzburg. E ´Kleiner M”nnerkopf ohne H”nde (small male head without hands)ª. Woodcut on ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1800 (Spring Auctions Kollwitz, K”the 1867 K–nigsberg - 1945 Moritzburg. E ´Deutschlands Kinder hungern! (Germany's children are starving!). 1924ª ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1801 (Spring Auctions Kollwitz, K”the 1867 K–nigsberg - 1945 Moritzburg. E ´Nie wieder Krieg! (Never again war!)ª. Lithograph. On the stone titled, ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1802 (Spring Auctions Kollwitz, K”the 1867 K–nigsberg - 1945 Moritzburg. E ´Verbr¸derung (fraternisation)ª. Lithograph on laid paper. Signed lower right ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1803 (Spring Auctions Kollwitz, K”the 1867 K–nigsberg - 1945 Moritzburg. E ´Kinderkopf (child's head) (Lotte). 1925ª. Lithograph. Signed lower right in ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 1805 (Spring Auctions Kollwitz, K”the 1867 K–nigsberg - 1945 Moritzburg. E ´Gefangene Musik h–rend (prisoners, listening to music). 1925ª. Lithograph. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1806 (Spring Auctions Kollwitz, K”the 1867 K–nigsberg - 1945 Moritzburg. E ´Nachdenkende Frau (pondering woman)ª. Lithograph. Signed lower left in ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1807 (Spring Auctions Kollwitz, K”the 1867 K–nigsberg - 1945 Moritzburg. E ´Muttergl¸ck (joy of maternity)ª. Lithograph. Unsigned. Minor creasing. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1808 (Spring Auctions Kollwitz, K”the 1867 K–nigsberg - 1945 Moritzburg. E ´M¸tter gebt von eurem Ðberfluþ! (Mothers, give from your plenty!). 1926ª. ... | |||
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