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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1112 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Solid band ring with orange citrine and diamonds Probably Juwelier Rüschenbeck, Düsseldorf early 21st C. Yellow and white gold 18k. Wide, smooth ring band, the front ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 3000 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Beckmann, Max 1884 Leipzig - 1950 New York. «Rauchender Mann im Profil und Kopf mit Hut en face (smoking man in profile and head ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3132 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hüppi, Alfonso Born 1935 «RE32». Casein paint on wooden pallet ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 3182 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Polke, Sigmar 1941 Oels - 2020 Cologne. «Calla». 1996 Colour offset on smooth offset paper. Typographically printed in the ... | starting price: 300,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3195 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Sassen, Beatrix Born 1945 Vinsebeck, lives and works in Düsseldorf. Untitled. Mixed media with watercolour and pencil on ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3216 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Tübke, Werner 1929 Schönebeck/Elbe - 2004 Leipzig. «Eine Auffindung (a discovery)» from «10 Lithographien II (10 lithographs ... | |||
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3264 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Speckter, Hans 1848 Hamburg - 1888 Lübeck. Boys measuring their strength. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left and dated ... | ||||
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1000 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Van Cleef & Arpels blossom brooch «Rose de Noël» with Midway coral Paris circa 1978. Yellow gold 18k. Blossom-shaped front, centrally set with eight brilliant-cut diamonds weighing in ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2032 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Kluth, Karl 1898 Halle a.d. Saale - 1972 Hamburg. Holstentor. View of Lübeck's landmark with the Church of St. Mary and St. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2050 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Malskat, Lothar 1913 Königsberg - 1988 Lübeck. «Nach dem Auftritt (after the show)». Oil on plywood. Monogrammed lower middle ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2145 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Polke, Sigmar 1941 Oels - 2010 Cologne. Untitled. 1988. Serigraph in colours on cardboard. Signed lower right. H 98,8, ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2031 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Kollwitz, Käthe 1867 Königsberg - 1945 Moritzburg. «Mutterglück (joy of motherhood)». 1931. Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned. ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2033 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Kollwitz, Käthe 1867 Königsberg - 1945 Moritzburg. «Frauenkopf (woman's head)». 1905. Vernis mou on laid paper. Monogrammed lower ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2034 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Kollwitz, Käthe 1867 Königsberg - 1945 Moritzburg. «Das Bangen (Das Warten) (the trembling - the waiting)». Lithograph on brown ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2166 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Klasen, Peter Geb. 1935 Lübeck, lebt und arbeitet in Vincennes. «Volant/Serrage-Lock». Acrylic, rope, cable, metal bracket and ... | |||
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