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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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Lam, Wifredo
1902 Sagua la Grande - 1982 Paris.
Untitled - preparatory sketch for the project «La Rampa». Wax crayon on transparent paper. Signed lower right. Inscribed several times at the lower margin, as well as stamped «Talleres Ornacen s.a.». Tears and creasing along the margins. Unframed.
Preparatory sketch for the famous floor mosaic by Wifredo Lam at Boulevard La Rampa in Havana, Cuba. For this art project several Cuban artists, like Wifredo Lam and René Portocarrero, have been asked to create designs for granite sidewalk mosaics. These mosaics still exist today and dominate the character of this entertainment mile as abstract geometrical signs. The present work has been used directly in the production process and bears the corresponding notes, as well as the stamps of the companies and persons involved in the execution. Unique work of high documentary value.
Enclosed a letter by the National Cultural Council Consejo Nacional de Cultura regarding the organisation of the project, dated 22.09.1963. The present work is mentioned there under the number 13 as factory sketch for the floor mosaic.
Provenance: estate of Mario Coylua Cowley, Cuban star architect; since then private possession Canada.
1902 Sagua la Grande - 1982 Paris.
Ohne Titel - Entwurf für das Projekt «La Rampa». Wachskreide auf Transparentpapier. U.r. sign. Am unteren Rand mehrfach bez. sowie gestempelt «Talleres Ornacen s.a.». Einrisse und Knicke entlang der Blattkanten.
H. 100,6,
Entwurfszeichnung für das berühmte Bodenmosaik von Wifredo Lam auf dem Boulevard La Rampa in Havanna, Kuba. Für dieses Projekt lieferten mehrere kubanische Künstler, neben Wifredo Lam auch René Portocarrero, Entwürfe für Granitmosaiken, die bis heute als abstrakte geometrische Zeichen den Charakter der Vergnügungsmeile prägen. Das hier gezeigte Werk wurde als direkte Vorlage verwendet und trägt die entsprechenden Notizen sowie Stempel der an der Ausführung beteiligten Personen und Firmen. Einzigartige Arbeit von hohem dokumentarischen Wert.
Anbei ein Schreiben des Nationalen Kulturrates Consejo Nacional de Cultura bezüglich der Planung des Projektes, datiert 22.09.1963. Dort unter der
Provenienz: Nachlass Mario Coyula Cowley, kubanischer Stararchitekt; seitdem Privatbesitz Kanada.