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 25.–26.11.2022 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3214 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Hasemann, Wilhelm Gustav F. 1850 Mühlberg/Elbe - 1913 Gutach. Blooming spring garden in Weimar. Oil on cardboard. Signed lower right, dated ... | ||||
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3244 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hasemann, Wilhelm Gustav F. 1850 Mühlberg - 1913 Gutach. «Die Mühlenbacherin». Oil on canvas. Signed upper left and inscribed «Karlsruhe». ... | ||||
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4339 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Hasemann, Wilhelm 1850 Mühlberg - 1913 Gutach. Studies from nature. Three drawings in pencil, partially heightened with white chalk, ... | ||||
4340 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Hasemann, Wilhelm 1850 Mühlberg - 1913 Gutach. Kitchen interior with mother and daughter at the stove. Pencil on brown, ribbed ... | ||||
4341 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Hasemann, Wilhelm 1850 Mühlberg - 1913 Gutach. Young girl in traditional costume. Oil on canvas. Signed upper right. Verso on the ... | ||||
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4480 (Autumn Auctions Hasemann, Wilhelm 1850 Mühlberg - 1913 Gutach. View across Büchereck. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 1907 lower left. Verso ... | ||||
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1605a (Spring Auctions Hasemann, Wilhelm 1850 M¸hlberg - 1913 Gutach. E M¸hlenbacherin. Oil on canvas. Signed upper right. Provenance: South German private ... | ||||
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1923 (Spring Auctions Hasemann, Wilhelm 1850 M¸hlberg - 1913 Gutach. E Charcoal pile near Nuþbach. Pencil drawing on paper. Signed, inscribed and dated ... | ||||
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1883 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Liebich, Curt 1868 Wesel - 1937 Gutach. Blühende Erika. Öl/Karton. Blick über ein farbenfrohes Feld mit Heidekräutern in ... | ||||
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1900 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Hasemann, Wilhelm 1850 Mühlberg - 1913 Gutach. Öl/Lw. Bauernmarkt. Auf einer Dorfstraße mit frei herumlaufenden Hühnern, vor einer ... | ||||
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2775 (Spring Sale Wilhelm Jensen Der Schwarzwald. Mit Illustrationen von Wilhelm Hasemann, Emil Lugo, Max Roman, Wilhelm Volz, Karl Eyth. 2. Aufl. ... | ||||
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2470 (Winter Sale Hasemann, Wilhelm 1850 Mühlberg/Elbe - 1913 Gutach. Partiell kolorierte Bleistiftzeichnung. "Der Herr Bürgermeister (Schwarzwald)". ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | |||
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2383 (Autumn Sale Hasemann, Wilhelm 1850 Mühlberg/Elbe - 1913 Gutach. Öl/Lw./Karton. "Schwarzwaldhaus in Gutach hinter Bäumen". Verso bez., bet und ... | starting price: 7600,- EUR |
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