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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Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018 Old Prints | ||||
3557 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Piranesi, Giovanni Battista 1720 Mogliano - 1778 Rom. «Veduta interna della Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano». 1748. Etching. Signed lower ... | ||||
3558 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Piranesi, Giovanni Battista 1720 Mogliano - 1778 Rom. «Veduta interna del sepolcro di S. Costanza». 1756. Etching. Signed lower right in the ... | ||||
3559 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Piranesi, Giovanni Battista 1720 Mogliano - 1778 Rom. «Veduta della Piazza del Popolo». 1750. Etching. Titled lower middle and inscribed lower ... | ||||
3560 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Piranesi, Giovanni Battista 1720 Mogliano - 1778 Rom. «Veduta del Ponte e Castello Sant'Angelo». 1754. Etching. Signed lower right in the ... | ||||
3561 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Piranesi, Giovanni Battista 1720 Mogliano - 1778 Rom. «Veduta della gran Piazza e Basilica di S. Pietro». 1772. Etching. Signed lower right in ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015 Old Prints | ||||
4443 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Piranesi, Giovanni Battista 1720 Mogliano - 1778 Rom. «Veduta del Palazzo Farnese». 1773. Etching on strong wove paper. Signed and titled lower ... | ||||
Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008 Old Prints | ||||
2234 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Piranesi, Giovanni Battista 1720 Mogliano bei Mestre - 1778 Rom. Radierung. Nach Il Guercino. Darstellung eines alten Mannes, sich ausruhend, ... | ||||
2235 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Piranesi, Giovanni Battista 1720 Mogliano bei Mestre - 1778 Rom. Kupferstich. «Veduta della Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano». Ansicht des ... | ||||
2236 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Piranesi, Giovanni Battista 1720 Mogliano bei Mestre - 1778 Rom. Radierung. Nach P.L. Ghezzi. Ganzkörperbildnis des Signore Nicola Zabbaglia. ... | starting price: 100,- EUR | |||
Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008 Old Prints | ||||
1833 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Piranesi, Giovanni Battista 1720 Mogliano bei Mestre - 1778 Rom. Kupferstich. Veduta di Campo Vaccino. In der Platte u.l. Legende, u. Mitte ... | ||||
1834 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Piranesi, Giovanni Battista 1720 Mogliano bei Mestre - 1778 Rom. Kupferstich. «Colonna Trajana». Ansicht der Trajanssäule mit der Kirche SS del ... | ||||
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2243 (Spring Sale Piranesi, Giovanni Battista 1720 Mogliano bei Mestre - 1778 Rom. Kupferstich. Das Kolosseum in Rom. In der Platte u.l. bet., u.l. und r. ... | ||||
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2645 (Autumn Sale Piranesi, Giovanni Battista 1720 Mogliano bei Mestre - 1778 Rom. Kupferstich. Vedute der Piazza della Rotonda in Rom. In der Platte u. Mitte ... | ||||
2646 (Autumn Sale Piranesi, Giovanni Battista 1720 Mogliano bei Mestre - 1778 Rom. Kupferstich. Vedute der Piazza di Monte Cavallo in Rom. In der Platte u. Mitte ... | ||||
2647 (Autumn Sale Piranesi, Giovanni Battista 1720 Mogliano bei Mestre - 1778 Rom. Kupferstich. Vedute der Piazza Navona in Rom. In der Platte u. Mitte bet. ... | ||||
2648 (Autumn Sale Piranesi, Giovanni Battista 1720 Mogliano bei Mestre - 1778 Rom. Kupferstich. Der Janusbogen in Rom. In der Platte u. Mitte sowie u.r. bez. ... | ||||
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2266 (Autumn Sale Piranesi, Giovanni Battista 1720 Mogliano bei Mestre - 1778 Rom. Radierung. «Veduta del Ponte Molle sul Tevere due miglia londan da Roma». ... |
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