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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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Court portrait painter
Baron Friedrich Erdmann von Glaubitz.
Oil on canvas, relined. Unsigned. Inscribed lower left «Freiherrn Friedrich Erdmann von Glaubitz Altengabel HofRaths Præsident (Baron Friedrich Erdmann von Glaubitz Altengabel President of the Privy Council)» and dated «Pinx, den 7 Marty 1768. (painted on the 7th March 1768)». Restored. White shrinking cracks.
H 121,5, W 97 cm.
«The portrait of Friedrich Erdmann von Glaubitz is an important cultural-historical testimony to Baden's history, to the literary German Early Enlightenment and to the history of the Imperial Chamber Court in Wetzlar. […] Friedrich Erdmann von Glaubitz (3rd January 1693 Pantzgau - 2nd March 1744 Wetzlar) was the descendant of a noble family who resided in Meissen in the
Upper left family coat of arms of the Glaubitz Altengabel family: The family coat of arms shows a silver carp in blue, cross-laid on the right side. On the helmet with blue-silver mantling the carp in front of three ostrich feathers (red, silver, blue). […] The sitter presents the Baden House Order of Faithfulness, which was donated by Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach as a reward for services and on the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone of his later residence Karlsruhe on 17 June 1715.» from: Patrick Heinstein, expert report, Neuchâtel, 27.09.2019.
Expert report: Patrick Heinstein, Neuchâtel, 27.09.2019.
We would like to thank Mr. Patrick Heinstein, art historian and portrait expert, Neuchâtel, for the scientific advice via
Provenance: formerly from the noble family von Glaubitz and von Richthofen and successors. 
Hofporträtist
Freiherr Friedrich Erdmann von Glaubitz.
Öl auf Leinwand, doubliert. Unsign. U.l. bez. «Freiherrn Friedrich Erdmann von Glaubitz Altengabel HofRaths Præsident» und «Pinx, den 7 Marty 1768.» dat. Stark altrest. Frühschwundrisse.
H. 121,5,
«Das Porträt des Friedrich Erdmann von Glaubitz stellt ein bedeutendes kulturgeschichtliches Zeugnis zur badischen Geschichte, zur literarischen deutschen Frühaufklärung und zur Geschichte des Reichskammergerichts in Wetzlar dar. […] Friedrich Erdmann von Glaubitz (3. Januar 1693 Pantzgau - 2. März 1744 Wetzlar) entstammte einem erstmals im
Oben links Familienwappen derer von Glaubitz-Altengabel: Das Stammwappen zeigt in Blau einen rechtsgekehrten, quergelegten, silbernen Karpfen. Auf dem Helm mit blau-silbernen Decken der Karpfen vor drei (Farbfolge Rot, Silber, Blau) Straußenfedern. […] Der Dargestellte trägt den badischen Hausorden der Treue, der durch Markgraf Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach als Lohn für Verdienste und aus Anlass der Grundsteinlegung seiner späteren Residenz Karlsruhe am 17. Juni 1715 gestiftet wurde.» aus: Patrick Heinstein, Gemäldeexpertise, Neuchâtel, 27.09.2019.
Expertise: Patrick Heinstein, Neuchâtel, 27.09.2019.
Wir danken Herrn Patrick Heinstein, Kunsthistoriker und Experte für Porträts, Neuchâtel, für die wissenschaftliche Beratung via
Provenienz: ehemals aus dem Adelsgeschlecht von Glaubitz und von Richthofen und Nachfolge.