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 19.–20.11.2021 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2035 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Kokoschka, Oskar 1886 Pöchlarn - 1980 Montreux. Chestnut branch. Watercolour on strong chamois wove paper. Signed lower left and ... | |||
Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2037 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Kokoschka, Oskar 1886 Pöchlarn - 1980 Villeneuve. «The women of Troy: Hekuba's lament over the fall of Troy». 1972. Lithograph on ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2027 (Spring Auctions Kokoschka, Oskar 1886 Pöchlarn - 1980 Villeneuve. «Kürbis (pumpkin)». Lithograph in colours on BFK Rives wove paper. Signed lower ... | starting price: 1200,- EUR | ||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2029 (Autumn Auctions Kokoschka, Oskar 1886 Pöchlarn - 1980 Villeneuve. «Selbstbildnis mit Radiernadel (self portrait with etching needle)». Etching and ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 1762 (Spring Auctions Gotsch, Friedrich Karl 1900 Kiel - 1984 St. Peter Ording. E Still life with red sculpture. Oil on hessian. Monogrammed upper right. ... | |||
Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2073 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Gotsch, Friedrich Karl 1900 Kiel - 1984 St. Peter Ording. Stillleben mit roter Skulptur. Öl/Rupfen. In leuchtendem Komplementärkontrast ... | |||
Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008 Modern Prints | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1931 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Kokoschka, Oskar 1886 Pöchlarn - 1980 Villeneuve. Vier Lithographien. Brustbildnis eines kahlköpfigen Mannes mit Monokel bzw. eines ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1932 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Kokoschka, Oskar 1886 Pöchlarn - 1980 Villeneuve. Farblithographie. «Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité». Brustbildnis eines Mannes. Auf ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1991 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Sechs Plakate der Olympischen München München 1972 Siebdrucke. U.a. von Oskar Kokoschka, Jacob Laurence, Valerio Adami, Max Bill, Richard Smith. Abstrakte monochrome ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2361 (Autumn Sale Kokoschka, Oskar 1886 Pöchlarn - 1980 Villeneuve. Lithographie. Brustbildnis eines kahlköpfigen Mannes mit Monokel. Unsign. ... | starting price: 50,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2362 (Autumn Sale Kokoschka, Oskar 1886 Pöchlarn - 1980 Villeneuve. Lithographie. Brustbildnis eines lächelnden Mannes im Dreiviertelprofil nach ... | starting price: 50,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2363 (Autumn Sale Kokoschka, Oskar 1886 Pöchlarn - 1980 Villeneuve. Lithographie. Brustbildnis eines freundlich blickenden Mannes en face. ... | starting price: 50,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2364 (Autumn Sale Kokoschka, Oskar 1886 Pöchlarn - 1980 Villeneuve. Lithographie. Brustbildnis eines Mannes mit großer Nase und Fliege, im ... | starting price: 50,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2365 (Autumn Sale Kokoschka, Oskar 1886 Pöchlarn - 1980 Villeneuve. Lithographie. Brustbildnis eines Mannes mit Brille und Fez, im Dreiviertelprofil ... | starting price: 50,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2366 (Autumn Sale Kokoschka, Oskar 1886 Pöchlarn - 1980 Villeneuve. Lithographie. «Glahn und Eva». Halbfigurenbildnis eines Paares, Mann mit Mütze, ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2744 (Autumn Sale Kokoschka, Oskar 1886 Pöchlarn - 1980 Villeneuve. Buntstiftzeichnung. In einem Oval Darstellung eines Skorpions mit entsprechendem ... | starting price: 100,- EUR |
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