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 24.11–25.11.2023 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3240 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Wilding, Ludwig 1927 Grünstadt - 2010 Buchholz. «Objekt mit Scheinbewegung SBST 5523 (object with mock movement SBST ... | |||
Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2160 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Wilding, Ludwig 1927 Grünstadt - 2010 Buchholz. «Stroboscopic drawing with circles» from «Exacta. Dal costruttivismo all'arte ... | |||
Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2179 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Wilding, Ludwig 1927 Grünstadt - 2010 Buchholz. Untitled. 5 x 5 circles. Two pieces. Zincograph on light cardboard with ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2180 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Wilding, Ludwig 1927 Grünstadt - 2010 Buchholz. «Stroboscopic drawing with circles» from «Exacta. Dal costruttivismo all'arte ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2181 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Wilding, Ludwig 1927 Grünstadt - 2010 Buchholz. «Graphic interference with progressive lattice» from «Exacta. Dal costruttivismo ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2182 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Wilding, Ludwig 1927 Grünstadt - 2010 Buchholz. Untitled. Kinetic composition of triangles. Zincograph on paper. Signed lower ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2290 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Wilding, Ludwig 1927 Grünstadt - 2010 Buchholz. Untitled. Circle grid. Zincograph on strong paper. Signed lower middle and dated ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2291 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Wilding, Ludwig 1927 Grünstadt - 2010 Buchholz. Untitled. Overlay. Zincograph on strong paper. Signed lower right and dated ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2292 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Wilding, Ludwig 1927 Grünstadt - 2010 Buchholz. Untitled. Angled lines. Serigraph on light cardboard. Signed lower right and ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2293 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Wilding, Ludwig 1927 Grünstadt - 2010 Buchholz. «Black and White Circles». Serigraph on light cardboard. Signed lower right and ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2294 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Wilding, Ludwig 1927 Grünstadt - 2010 Buchholz. Untitled. Kinetic composition of triangles. Zincograph on paper, mounted on ... | |||
Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2214 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Wilding, Ludwig 1927 Grünstadt - 2010 Buchholz. «Single PS 7b». Lauf Objekt. Serigraph on acrylic glass in front of a serigraph ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2215 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Wilding, Ludwig 1927 Grünstadt - 2010 Buchholz. Untitled (No. 84). Kinetic object. Serigraph on acrylic glass in front of a ... | |||
Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2137a (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Wilding, Ludwig 1927 Grünstadt - 2010 Buchholz. Untitled (No 84). Kinetic object. Serigraph on acrylic glass in front of a ... | starting price: 1800,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2137 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Wilding, Ludwig 1927 Grünstadt - 2010 Buchholz. «Single PS 7b». Serigraph on acrylic glass in front of Serigraph on cardboard ... | starting price: 10000,- EUR | ||
Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2265 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Wilding, Ludwig 1927 Grünstadt - 2010 Buchholz. Untitled (No. 37). Serigraph on perspex and paper, in object box. Verso on the ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2266 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Wilding, Ludwig 1927 Grünstadt - 2010 Buchholz. Untitled (one circular composition overlay and two further kinetic compositions). ... | |||
Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2264 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Wilding, Ludwig 1927 Grünstadt - 2010 Buchholz. Untitled. Screen print in colours on PVC foil. Signed, dated (19)73 and numbered ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2265 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Wilding, Ludwig 1927 Grünstadt - 2010 Buchholz. «Black and White Circles». Screen print on smooth, thin cardboard. Signed lower ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2266 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Wilding, Ludwig 1927 Grünstadt - 2010 Buchholz. «Black and White Circles». Screen print on smooth, thin cardboard. Signed lower ... | |||
Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2345 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Wilding, Ludwig Born 1927 Grünstadt. E «Kunst (= Wahrheit) ist gefährlich sie muss hinter Gitter!». Multiple, offset and plastic. ... | starting price: 200,- EUR | ||
Autumn Auctions | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1382 (Autumn Auctions Wilding, Ludwig Born 1927 Grünstadt. «Stereoskopisches Multiple (stereoscopic multiple)». Plastic. Verso on label with title, ... |
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