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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0426 (Autumn Sale Paar Deckelvasen Wien um 1900. Porzellan, glasiert, bemalt und goldstaffiert. Runder Stand, balusterförmiger Korpus, Röhrenhals, ... | ||||
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0429 (Autumn Sale Hirsch und Reh Hutschenreuther 1920 - 1938. Porzellan, glasiert und bemalt. Einträchtig nebeneinander lagernder junger Hirsch und ... | ||||
0430 (Autumn Sale Tasse mit Untertasse Schumann & Sohn, Moabit 1840 - 1845. Porzellan, glasiert, bemalt und goldstaffiert. Auf konisch ansteigendem, ... | ||||
0431 (Autumn Sale Kleine Deckenlampe Meißen | starting price: 430,- EUR | |||
0432 (Autumn Sale Kaffeetasse mit Untertasse Meißen 1818 -1860. Porzellan, glasiert, bemalt und goldstaffiert. Form Neuer Ausschnitt. Auf der Schauseite bekröntes ... | ||||
0433 (Autumn Sale Rehkitz Rosenthal 1930er Jahre. Entwurf Theodor Kärner. Porzellan, glasiert und bemalt. Lagerndes Rehkitz. Unter dem Boden ... | ||||
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0435 (Autumn Sale Magd mit Ziege | ||||
0436 (Autumn Sale Kaffeetasse mit Untertasse | ||||
0437 (Autumn Sale Kleiner Konfektteller Rosenthal 1. Hälfte | starting price: 10,- EUR | |||
0438 (Autumn Sale Kleines Kännchen Meißen | starting price: 300,- EUR | |||
0439 (Autumn Sale Kleiner Porträtteller 19./ | ||||
0440 (Autumn Sale Tasse mit Untertasse Meißen 1774 - 1813. Porzellan, glasiert, bemalt und goldstaffiert. Halbkugelförmige Tasse, tief gemuldeter Teller. ... | starting price: 140,- EUR | |||
0441 (Autumn Sale Anbietschale Tiefenfurt Anfang | ||||
0442 (Autumn Sale Kaffeekanne Meißen Ende | ||||
0443 (Autumn Sale Saucière Meißen um 1880. Porzellan, glasiert und bemalt. Form Neuer Ausschnitt. Dekor Zwiebelmuster. Unter dem Boden ... | ||||
0444 (Autumn Sale Teetasse mit Untersetzer und Konfektteller Meißen 1774 - 1813. Porzellan, glasiert, bemalt und goldstaffiert. Runder Stand, halbkugeliger Korpus mit Ohrenhenkel. ... | ||||
0445 (Autumn Sale Saucière Meißen 19 Jh. Porzellan, glasiert und bemalt. Form Neuer Ausschnitt. Dekor Zwiebelmuster. Unter dem Boden ... | starting price: 80,- EUR | |||
0446 (Autumn Sale Teekanne Meißen 1774 - 1813. Porzellan, glasiert und bemalt. Flacher, runder Stand, kugeliger Korpus mit Schwanenhalsausguss ... | ||||
0447 (Autumn Sale Tasse mit Untertasse | ||||
0448 (Autumn Sale Paar Prunkdeckelvasen Wohl Helena Wolfsohn 1843 - 1893. Porzellan, glasiert, bemalt und goldstaffiert. Auf quadratischem Sockel, konisch ... | ||||
0449 (Autumn Sale Tafelaufsatz Meißen um 1880. Porzellan, glasiert und bemalt. Standring, gedrehter, konisch ansteigender Rundfuß mit Nodus, runde ... | ||||
0450 (Autumn Sale Mokkaservice Meißen 1. Hälfte | starting price: 1000,- EUR | |||
0451 (Autumn Sale Tafelaufsatz Meißen um 1880. Porzellan, glasiert und bemalt. Standring, gedrehter, konisch ansteigender Rundfuß mit Nodus, runde ... | ||||
0452 (Autumn Sale Deckeldose Herend, Ungarn nach 1945. Porzellan, glasiert, bemalt und goldstaffiert. Runder Stand, netzartig durchbrochen ... | ||||
0453 (Autumn Sale Deckelterrine Meißen um 1880. Porzellan, glasiert und bemalt. Auf vier Volutenfüßen, ovaler Korpus mit muschelförmigen, ... | ||||
0454 (Autumn Sale Kaffee-Teeservice KPM, Berlin 2. Hälfte | ||||
0455 (Autumn Sale Große Deckelterrine Meißen 1864 - 1912. Porzellan, glasiert und bemalt. Ovaler, gebauchter Korpus mit blattförmigen Handhaben. Gewölbter ... | starting price: 200,- EUR |
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