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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2816 (Autumn Sale Morland, George nach 1763 London - 1804 ebd. Paar kolorierte Stiche. "A Tea Garden" und "St. James´s Park". Jeweils im Oval ... | ||||
2820 (Autumn Sale Nanteuil, Robert 1623 Reims - 1678 Paris. Kupferstich. Im Oval Brustporträt eines höfisch gekleideten Mannes mit schulterlangem, ... | ||||
2822 (Autumn Sale Picart (Picard), Bernard 1673 Paris - 1733 Amsterdam. Kupferstich. "La Toilette de Venus". Die sitzende Göttin, umgeben von drei Gehilfinnen ... | ||||
2823 (Autumn Sale Picart (Picard), Bernard 1673 Paris - 1733 Amsterdam. Kupferstich. "La Nimphe Caliste exilée da la cour de Dianne". An einem See mit ... | ||||
2824 (Autumn Sale Ponheimer, Kilian Kartograph Kolorierter Kupferstich. "Schlacht bei Emmendingen am neunzehnten October 1796". In ... | starting price: 140,- EUR | |||
2825 (Autumn Sale Prestel, Maria Katharina nach 1747 Nürnberg - 1794 London. Farblithographie. "Morning". Der Schäfer und seine Herde in Landschaft mit Ruine im ... | starting price: 125,- EUR | |||
2826 (Autumn Sale Probst, Johann Friedrich Vedutenstecher um 1750. Kolorierter Kupferstich. "Wienn in Oesterreich". Blick auf die befestigte Stadt. In der ... | ||||
2827 (Autumn Sale Régnier, Claude Lithograph in Paris um 1840/66. Teilkolorierte Farblithographie. "La Guerre". Im Oval Waldlichtung mit vier ... | starting price: 50,- EUR | |||
2828 (Autumn Sale Régnier, Claude Lithograph in Paris um 1840/66. Teilkolorierte Farblithographie. "La Paix". Im Oval vier unter einem Baum ... | starting price: 50,- EUR | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2829 (Autumn Sale Reiss, Fritz 1857 Düsseldorf - 1915 Kirchzarten bei Freiburg. Original-Radierung. Birkenallee im Sturm. Mit Bleistift o.l. bez. ... | |||
2830 (Autumn Sale Ridinger, Johannes Elias 1698 Ulm - 1767 Augsburg. Paar kolorierte Kupferstichnachdrucke. "Die Parade im Schritt links" und "Pasaden auf dem ... | ||||
2831 (Autumn Sale Ridinger, Martin Elias Um 1730 Augsburg - 1780 ebd. Kupferstich. "Den Hasen mit dem Habicht zu beißen". Gestochen nach einem Entwurf von ... | ||||
2832 (Autumn Sale Ridinger, Martin Elias Um 1730 Augsburg - 1780 ebd. Vier kolorierte Kupferstiche. "Windhetzer", "Falcken Junge mit der Chatsche", ... | ||||
2833 (Autumn Sale Schmidt-Glinz, Franz 1860 Priestäblich - 1929 Leipzig. Lithographie. Schnauzbärtiger, männlicher Rückenakt mit lockigem Haar im ... | starting price: 180,- EUR | |||
2839 (Autumn Sale Walch, Johann 1757 Kempten - 1816 Augsburg. Kolorierter Kupferstich. Landkarte von Holland. In der Platte o.l. in einem Kreis ... | ||||
2840 (Autumn Sale Weisbrod, Carl Wilhelm 1743 Stuttgart - um 1806 Verden. Radierung. Tanzende Bauerngesellschaft. Gestochen nach einer Vorlage von J. Miel. ... | ||||
2841 (Autumn Sale Werner, Friedrich Bernhard 1690 Reichenau/Schlesien - 1778 Breslau. Kolorierter Kupferstich. "Tornacum Dornik". Blick auf die belgische Stadt ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2896 (Autumn Sale Beckmann, Max 1884 Leipzig - 1950 New York. Lithographie. "Frau mit Fisch". Liegende Frau mit aufgestellten Beinen, dazwischen ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2916 (Autumn Sale Denis, Maurice 1870 Granville - 1945 Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Farblithographie. Maria, das auf einem Kinderbett kniende und betende ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2934 (Autumn Sale Jank, Angelo 1868 München - 1940 ebd. Farblithographie "Unterwelt". Zerberus im Kampf mit einem Mann mit Schellenkappe. Auf dem ... | starting price: 300,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2938 (Autumn Sale Liebermann, Max 1847 Berlin - 1935 ebd. Lithographie. Von Soldaten begleiteter Aufmarsch am Brandenburger Tor. Auf dem Stein u.l. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2950 (Autumn Sale Nolde, Emil 1867 Nolde/Nordschlesweig - 1956 Seebüll/Hollstein. Aquatintaradierung. Liegender weiblicher Akt mit ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2955 (Autumn Sale Pechstein, Max 1881 Zwickau - 1955 Berlin. Buchgraphik. Kleiner Junge mit Holzpferd. U.r. monogr. und 1916 dat. | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2960 (Autumn Sale Renoir, Auguste 1841 Limoges - 1919 Cagnes/Nizza. Radierung. Zwei junge Mädchen, eine der anderen eine Blüte am Hut feststeckend. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2972 (Autumn Sale Vogeler, Heinrich 1872 Bremen - 1942 Kasachstan. Radierung. "Exlibris Jenne Eggert". In Jugendstilrahmung Ovalbildnis mit auf das ... | |||
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