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 08.–09.12.2017 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3039 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Berges, Werner 1941 Cloppenburg - 2017 Schallstadt bei «Schwimmer (swimmer)». Screen print in colours ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3040 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Berges, Werner 1941 Cloppenburg - 2017 Schallstadt bei «Girl». Screen print in colours on Chromolux. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3041 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Berges, Werner 1941 Cloppenburg - 2017 Schallstadt bei «Duke». Screen print in colours on ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3042 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Berges, Werner 1941 Cloppenburg - 2017 Schallstadt bei «Grüne Puppe (green doll)». Screen print in ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3043 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Berges, Werner 1941 Cloppenburg - 2017 Schallstadt bei «Bad (bath)». Screen print in colours on ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3044 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Berges, Werner 1941 Cloppenburg - 2017 Schallstadt bei «Garbo». Screen print in colours on ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3045 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Berges, Werner 1941 Cloppenburg - 2017 Schallstadt bei «Paar (couple)». Screen print in colours on ... | |||
Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2043 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Berges, Werner Geb. 1941 Cloppenburg, lebt und arbeitet in Schallstadt bei «Streifen (stripes)». Mixed ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2044 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Berges, Werner Geb. 1941 Cloppenburg, lebt und arbeitet in Schallstadt bei «Stilleben mit Angeber ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2045 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Berges, Werner Geb. 1941 Cloppenburg, lebt und arbeitet in Schallstadt bei «José grün (José green)». ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2046 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Berges, Werner Geb. 1941 Cloppenburg, lebt und arbeitet in Schallstadt bei «An der Wand entlang (along ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2207 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Berges, Werner Geb. 1941 Cloppenburg, lebt und arbeitet in Schallstadt bei «Senorita». Screen print in ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2208 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Berges, Werner Geb. 1941 Cloppenburg, lebt und arbeitet in Schallstadt bei «Sweeties I». Screen print ... | |||
Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2084 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Berges, Werner Geb. 1941 Cloppenburg, lebt und arbeitet in Schallstadt bei Mobile with figures. Unique ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2085 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Berges, Werner Geb. 1941 Cloppenburg, lebt und arbeitet in Schallstadt bei Untitled. Watercolour on ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2086 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Berges, Werner Geb. 1941 Cloppenburg, lebt und arbeitet in Schallstadt bei Untitled. Watercolour on ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2087 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Berges, Werner Geb. 1941 Cloppenburg, lebt und arbeitet in Schallstadt bei «Sweeties IV». Screen print ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2088 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Berges, Werner Geb. 1941 Cloppenburg, lebt und arbeitet in Schallstadt bei «Sweeties V». Screen print ... | |||
Spring Auctions | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2054 (Spring Auctions Berges, Werner Geb. 1941 Cloppenburg, lebt und arbeitet in Schallstadt bei «Tauben (Doves)». Etching ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2055 (Spring Auctions Berges, Werner Geb. 1941 Cloppenburg, lebt und arbeitet in Schallstadt bei «Während des Streifens ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2056 (Spring Auctions Berges, Werner Geb. 1941 Cloppenburg, lebt und arbeitet in Schallstadt bei «Bunter Nachmittag ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2057 (Spring Auctions Berges, Werner Geb. 1941 Cloppenburg, lebt und arbeitet in Schallstadt bei «Auch mal o.T. (also once ... | |||
Autumn Auctions | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2081 (Autumn Auctions Berges, Werner Geb. 1941 Cloppenburg. Surreal mesh of forms. Oil on canvas. Signed upper middle. Verso signed and dated (19)65 - ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2082 (Autumn Auctions Berges, Werner Geb. 1941 Cloppenburg. Abstraction of forms. Collage and mixed media on panel. Titled lower middle and signed and ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2083 (Autumn Auctions Berges, Werner Geb. 1941 Cloppenburg. «Blätterwald (deciduous forest)». Aquatint and watercolour on laid paper. Numbered 3/11 ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2290 (Autumn Auctions Mappenwerk «Kinderstern» Portfolio «Kinderstern (children star)». Published by Michael Domberger, Filderstadt 1989. Original map with two ... | |||
Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2112 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Berges, Werner Born 1941 Cloppenburg. «Silver». Serigraph on chromolux. Inscribed «Probedruck», signed and dated (19)71 lower ... | |||
Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2105 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Berges, Werner Born 1941 Cloppenburg. E «June-Girl». Serigraph. Inscribed «a.p.» lower middle and signed lower right in pencil. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2106 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Berges, Werner Born 1941 Cloppenburg. E Face with red and orange circles. Serigraph. Inscribed «a.p.» lower left and signed lower ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2107 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Berges, Werner Born 1941 Cloppenburg. E Striped nude. Serigraph. After 2002. Inscribed «a.p.» lower left and signed lower middle. ... |
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