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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0403 (Autumn Sale Speiseteller Meißen 1860 - 1924. Porzellan, glasiert und bemalt. Form Neuer Ausschnitt. Dekor Indisch Rot. Unter dem Boden ... | ||||
0404 (Autumn Sale Une Malabare Meißen um 1900. Entwurf Meyer 1751. Porzellan, glasiert, bemalt und goldstaffiert. Auf rocailliertem Natursockel, ... | ||||
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0406 (Autumn Sale Höfisches Paar Wohl | starting price: 300,- EUR | |||
0407 (Autumn Sale Speiseteller Meißen 1860 - 1924. Porzellan, glasiert, bemalt und goldstaffiert. Form Neuer Ausschnitt. Dekor Indisch Bunt. ... | ||||
0408 (Autumn Sale Vogel Meißen 1924 - 1934. Porzellan, glasiert und bemalt. Auf Felssockel, Baumstumpf mit buntgefiedertem Vogel. Unter dem ... | ||||
0409 (Autumn Sale Hahn und Henne Meißen | ||||
0410 (Autumn Sale Kleiner Teller Meißen 1860 - 1924. Porzellan, glasiert und bemalt. Form Neuer Ausschnitt. Dekor Indische Blume Purpur. Unter dem ... | ||||
0411 (Autumn Sale Jäger mit Fasanen Meißen um 1880. Porzellan, glasiert, bemalt und goldstaffiert. Auf rocailliertem Rundsockel, stehender, höfisch ... | ||||
0412 (Autumn Sale Kuchenteller Meißen 1860 - 1924. Porzellan, glasiert, bemalt und goldstaffiert. Leicht gemuldeter Teller mit schräger Fahne. Dekor ... | ||||
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0414 (Autumn Sale Sechs Durchbruchteller 1. Hälfte | ||||
0415 (Autumn Sale Porträtteller Ende | starting price: 500,- EUR | |||
0416 (Autumn Sale Anbietteller Meißen 1860 - 1924. Porzellan, glasiert, bemalt und goldstaffiert. Standring, leicht gemuldeter Teller, schräge, ... | ||||
0417 (Autumn Sale Große Prunkdeckeldose Potschappel 2. Hälfte | starting price: 1900,- EUR | |||
0418 (Autumn Sale Teller Meißen 1860 - 1924. Porzellan, glasiert, bemalt und goldstaffiert. Standring, leicht gemuldeter Teller, waffelartig ... | ||||
0419 (Autumn Sale Prunktafelaufsatz mit Deckel Meißen | starting price: 2800,- EUR | |||
0420 (Autumn Sale Reliefteller Meißen | ||||
0421 (Autumn Sale Drei Teller Meißen 1860 - 1924. Porzellan, glasiert, bemalt und goldstaffiert. Standring, leicht gemuldeter Teller, schräge Fahne ... | ||||
0422 (Autumn Sale Jugendstil-Jardinière Wohl Potschappel um 1900. Porzellan, glasiert, bemalt und goldstaffiert. Auf vier ausgestellten Volutenfüßen, ovaler, ... | starting price: 1200,- EUR | |||
0423 (Autumn Sale Vier Tassen mit Untertassen und vier Kuchenteller Meißen 1860 - 1924. Porzellan, glasiert, bemalt und goldstaffiert. Tasse mit profiliertem Standring, sich nach oben ... | ||||
0424 (Autumn Sale Cachepot KPM, Berlin 1. Hälfte | starting price: 1500,- EUR | |||
0425 (Autumn Sale Kaffeekanne Meißen 1860 - 1924. Porzellan, glasiert, bemalt und goldstaffiert. Profilierter, konisch ansteigender Stand, ... |
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