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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Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3196 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Hof im Simonswald (farmhouse in Simonswald)». Oil on canvas. ... | ||||
3197 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest farms in autumn. Watercolour and gouache over ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | |||
3198 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest farm with outbuilding. Pencil and coloured ... | starting price: 800,- EUR | |||
3199 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 View of a Black Forest landscape. Pencil and coloured pencil ... | ||||
3200 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest farm at Ibental. Pencil on wove paper, with ... | starting price: 600,- EUR | |||
3201 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Mill at Ibental. Pencil and coloured pencil on wove paper. ... | starting price: 600,- EUR | |||
3202 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Holzschlag Kaltenhof». Pencil on ribbed wove paper. Unsigned. ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | |||
Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3438 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest houses on a stormy winter's day. Oil on canvas. ... | ||||
3439 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Two snow-covered farms in the evening sun. Oil on canvas. Signed ... | ||||
3440 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Schneebankwächten am Herzogenhorn (snow cornices at the ... | ||||
3441 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Wintertag im Elztal (winter's day in Elz Valley)». Oil on ... | ||||
3442 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 View of the snow-covered Wiese Valley. Oil on canvas. Signed lower ... | ||||
3443 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Snow-covered Black Forest farms during an approaching ... | ||||
3444 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Morning view of the Feldberg snow cornice. Oil on canvas. Signed ... | ||||
3445 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest farm in spring. Oil on canvas. Signed lower ... | ||||
3446 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest farms in autumn. Watercolour and gouache over pencil ... | ||||
3447 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Old mill by a creek. Watercolour over pencil on strong wove paper. ... | ||||
3448 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 View of a Black Forest landscape. Pencil and coloured pencil on ... | ||||
3449 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest farm with outbuilding. Pencil and coloured pencil on ... | ||||
3450 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «St. Märgen». Pencil on ribbed wove paper. Unsigned. Dated ... | ||||
3451 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest farm in Yach. Pencil on strong wove paper. ... | ||||
3452 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Alter Hebelhof (Feldberg) (Old Hebelhof - Feldberg)». Pencil and ... | ||||
3453 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Beim Rankhof St. Märgen (at the Rankhof St. Märgen)». Pencil on ... | ||||
3454 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «St. Märgen». Pencil on strong wove paper. Unsigned. Dated ... | ||||
3455 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest farm near St. Märgen. Pencil and coloured pencil on ... | ||||
3456 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «St. Märgen Birkenmeyermühle (St. Märgen Birkenmeyer Mill)». ... | ||||
3457 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Kalten Brunnen Joch (Kalten Brunnen col)». Pencil on strong wove ... | ||||
3458 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Holzschlag Kaltenhof». Pencil on ribbed wove paper. Unsigned. ... | ||||
3459 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Mill at Ibental. Pencil and coloured pencil on wove paper. ... | ||||
3460 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest farm at Ibental. Pencil on wove paper, with tear-off ... |
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