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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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3249
Winterauktionen 19.–20.11.2021
Eibl, Ludwig
1842 Vienna - 1918 Munich.
Springtime fish still life with rustic copper kettle, lettuce heads, lemons and a bouquet of spring snowflakes in earthenware wine jug.
Oil on canvas. Signed upper left.
H 50,
The dishes and utensils of this kitchen still life appear to be carelessly thrown together only at first glance; the well thought-out effect of this appealingly and delicately arranged coloristic composition unfolds bit by bit. The rust-red gleam of the copper kettle competes with the metallic glow of the carp scales, the bright yellow of the lemons engages in a duel of colour freshness with the delicate lime green of the heads of lettuce, the white body of the plaice competes with the calyx-like petals of the spring snowflakes. The only object not normally encountered in a kitchen is a fishing net hanging over the edge of the table, held in place by the weight of a blue and white porcelain plate. Perhaps it is an allusion to the quality of the freshly caught aquatic creatures waiting to be prepared. Possibly, however, we encounter here a subtle reference to the biblical fishermen of the Sea of Galilee through a witty, hidden symbolic language that identifies this kitchen piece as a Lenten still life alongside the meagre, downright frugal though delicate selection of food and tender early spring flowers.
The Austrian sculptor and painter Ludwig Eibl was a representative of the Münchner Schule and the wider circle around the realist painter Wilhelm Leibl. To this day he is appreciated for his suggestive still lifes, depicting manifold furnished kitchen tables or game with hunting utensils. He is also famous for his hunting scenes on the ceiling of the Blue Salon at Herrenchiemsee Palace.
Statement: Dr. Richard Hiepe, Neue Münchner Galerie, n.d.
Provenance: private collection Munich.
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