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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Image under artist's copyright. | 3183 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Remlinger, Jean Born 1935 Strasbourg, lives and works ibid. Dancers. Mixed media with coloured pencil, acrylic and watercolour ... | |||
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3267 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Keller, Ferdinand 1842 Karlsruhe - 1922 Baden-Baden. Baroque portal and cypresses on a Mediterranean shore. Oil on canvas. Signed ... | ||||
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3339 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Keller, Heinrich 1778 Zürich - 1862 ebd. «Tableaux des Zônes». Collection of ten so-called «Zonengemälden (zone paintings)», ... | ||||
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4451 (Spring Auctions Keller, Ferdinand 1842 Karlsruhe - 1922 Baden-Baden. Study for a ceiling fresco. Oil on cardboard. Monogrammed lower right and dated ... | starting price: 2200,- EUR | |||
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4501 (Autumn Auctions Keller, Ferdinand 1842 Karlsruhe - 1922 Baden-Baden. Sketch for «Les Inséparables». Oil on panel. Unsigned. Craquelure. ... | ||||
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5513 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Keller, Ferdinand 1842 Karlsruhe - 1922 Baden-Baden. Sketch for «Les Inséparables». Oil on panel. Unsigned. Craquelure. ... | starting price: 1800,- EUR | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2103 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Keller, Oskar 1894 Heilbronn - (?). Porträt eines jungen Mannes. Öl/Lw. Dreiviertelansicht eines Mannes in grauem Anzug mit ... | |||
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2215 (Autumn Auctions 26.–28.11.2009) Keller, Ferdinand 1842 Karlsruhe - 1922 Baden-Baden. Öl/Lw. Porträt der Gräfin Marie von der Goltz, geb. Gräfin Douglas. Vor ... | starting price: 4000,- EUR | |||
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2049 (Spring Sale Keller, Ferdinand 1842 Karlsruhe - 1922 Baden-Baden. Öl/Malkarton. Doppelporträt des Großherzogpaares Friedrich I. und Luise von ... | ||||
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