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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Image under artist's copyright. | 3221 Völkle, Bernd Artur Born 1940 Müllheim, lives and works in Tannenkirch. «Alter Hut von Cézanne (Cézanne's old hat)». Oil on canvas. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3222 Völkle, Bernd Artur Born 1940 Müllheim, lives and works in Tannenkirch. «Malereilandschaft (painted landscape)». Mixed media with ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3223 Völkle, Gerhard Born 1953 Lörrach, lives and works in Binzen. «Griff nach den Sternen (reaching for the stars)». Aluminium and ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3224 Wachter, Emil 1921 Neuburgweier - 2012 Karlsruhe. «Alte Mühle im Doubs-Tal (old mill in the Doubs valley)». Oil on cardboard. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3225 Wagner, Günter Born 1955 Karlsruhe, lives and works in Bruchsal. «Brothers». Granite, coated with iron, and patinated lead ... | order | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3226 Wagner, Günter Born 1955 Karlsruhe, lives and works in Bruchsal. «17/2007». Granite gravels, coated with iron, and patinated ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3227 Wagner, Günter Born 1955 Karlsruhe, lives and works in Bruchsal. «No. 15 2009». Granite paving stone, coated with iron, and ... | order | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3228 Warhol, Andy 1928 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. «Mildred Scheel». Colour serigraph with so called «Diamond Dust» (ground glass) ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3229 Warhol, Andy 1928 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. «Mildred Scheel». Colour serigraph with so called «Diamond Dust» (ground glass) ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3230 Waydelich, Raymond Émile Born 1938 Strasbourg, lives and works in Hindisheim. Work from the series «Aus der Lydia-Jacob-Story (from the Lydia ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3231 Waydelich, Raymond Émile Born 1938 Strasbourg, lives and works in Hindisheim. Work from the series «Aus der Lydia-Jacob-Story (from the ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3232 Waydelich, Raymond Émile Born 1938 Strasbourg, lives and works in Hindisheim. «Christoph-Columbus-Swing». 1991. Table clock, painted and ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3233 Waydelich, Raymond Émile Born 1938 Strasbourg, lives and works in Hindisheim. 1995. Weather vane with bullfighting scene. Iron, openworked ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3234 Weber, Konstantin Born 1949 «Lisa». Oil on plywood. ... | order | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3235 Weber, Konstantin Born 1949 «Unterwegs2 (on the way ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3236 Westpfahl, Conrad 1891 Berlin - 1976 Wetzhausen. «Waldfrühling (spring in the forest)». Oil on burlap. Signed lower left and ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3237 Wesely, Michael Born 1963 Munich, lives and works in Berlin. «Echo Cliffs at Page». C-print on aluminium-dibond behind acrylic ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3238 Wesely, Michael Born 1963 Munich, lives and works in Berlin. «Der Orinoco bei der Insel Guajibo (the Orinoco by the island ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3239 Wesely, Michael Born 1963 Munich, lives and works in Berlin. «Der Orinoco am Camp Orinoquia spätnachmittags (the Orinoco at Camp ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3240 Wilding, Ludwig 1927 Grünstadt - 2010 Buchholz. «Objekt mit Scheinbewegung SBST 5523 (object with mock movement SBST ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3241 Willmann, Thomas Thaddäus Born 1949 Lörrach, lives and works in Schallbach. Lying head. 1996. Portuguese marble, polished. H 21, | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3242 Willmann, Thomas Thaddäus Born 1949 Lörrach, lives and works in Schallbach. Head. 1996. Glued poplar, carved and polished. H 55, ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3243 Wunderlich, Paul 1927 Eberswalde - 2010 Saint-Pierre-de-Vassols. «Dame mit Hund (lady with dog)». Acrylic on canvas. Signed lower ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3244 Wunderlich, Paul 1927 Eberswalde - 2010 Saint-Pierre-de-Vassols. «Laura». Acrylic on canvas. Signed lower left and dated (19)91. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3245 Zimmermann, Jörg F. Born 1940 Uhingen, lives and works ibid. «Izebowl». Colourless, transparent glass with opaque fusions in blue, ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3246 Zimmermann, Jörg F. Born 1940 Uhingen, lives and works ibid. «Schalenobjekt (bowl object)». Colourless, transparent glass with oxide ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3247 Zimmermann, Jörg F. Born 1940 Uhingen, lives and works ibid. «Wabenobjekt (honeycomb object)». Colourless, transparent glass, ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3248 Zimmermann, Rolf 1948 Murg - 2021 Karlsruhe. Interior with nude. Acrylic on strong paper. Signed lower right and dated 1984. H ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3249 Zimmermann, Rolf 1948 Murg - 2021 Karlsruhe. «Schirme (umbrellas)». Gouche on strong paper. Signed lower middle and dated ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3250 Zitzwitz, Thomas Born 1964 Sindelfingen, lives and works in Cologne. Untitled. Pink - cream-coloured. Acrylic, lacquer and ... |
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