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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1117 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Der Kormoranfischer Japan | starting price: 400,- EUR | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 1696 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Fischer, Walter 1901 Gschwend - 1979 Bühl. Bronze, patiniert. Patiencespielerin. An kleinem Tisch sitzende junge Frau, Karten ... | starting price: 1200,- EUR | ||
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0128 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Vase «Inciso» Entwurf Paolo Venini für Venini & Co., Murano um 1950. Blaues, transparentes Glas. Auf ovalem Stand, gebauchter ... | starting price: 750,- EUR | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2174 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Krawczyk, Jerzy 1921 Lodz - 1969 ebd. Öl/Lw. Am Strand. Vor schwarzem Meer unter grauem Himmel Fischer, ihr Netz auf den Strand ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2350 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Jahresmappe der Gesellschaft für vervielfältigende Kunst in Wien, Jahrgänge 1897 - 1922 47 Radierungen, Farblithographien, Farbalgraphien, Farbholzschnitte, teilweise mehrfarbig oder koloriert. Darunter ... | |||
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1507 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Fischer, G. Landschaftsmaler 19./ Pastell/Karton. Unter blauem Himmel Blick auf einen verschneiten Berghang ... | ||||
1533 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Haardt, L. Genremaler 19./ Öl/Lw., doubl. Holländische Genreszene. A belebter Strandpartie arbeitende ... | starting price: 1000,- EUR | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 1744 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Holländischer Genremaler Anfang Öl/Lw., doubl. Hafenszene in Abendstimmung. Am Kai sitzende, sich unterhaltende ... | |||
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2202 (Spring Sale Schleusing, C. Landschaftsmaler um 1900. Öl/Lw. Blick auf Gebirgssee in Abendstimmung. Im Mittelgrund Fischer, seinen Fang ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2250 (Spring Sale Haefliger, Leopold 1929 Luzern - 1989 ebd. Öl/Hartfaser. Porträt eines Knaben mit blauem Hemd, rotem Halstuch und schwarzer Mütze. In ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2251 (Spring Sale Haefliger, Leopold 1929 Luzern - 1989 ebd. Öl/Karton. Zirkuszelt mit Schaustellerwagen. Unsign. H. 21, | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 1372 (Winter Sale Alter Fischer Asien 19./ | starting price: 90,- EUR | ||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2273 (Winter Sale Buchta, Wilhelm 1904 Stuttgart - 1993 Karlsruhe. Aquarell. «Bretonische Küste (Primel-Trégastel)». Vor Kulisse einer kleinen ... | starting price: 100,- EUR | ||
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0653 (Winter Sale Schenkkrug Fischer, Budapest | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2288 (Winter Sale Fischer, Jacob Adolph 1755 Magdeburg - 1824 Dresden. Gouache. In einem schleifenbekrönten Rahmen tänzelnder Putto mit Vase. Unsign. Verso ... | |||
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2371 (Winter Sale Boyle, George A. 1842 (?) - 1930 (?). Öl/Lw. Weite Küstenlandschaft mit unter alten Eichen rastendem Mann mit seinen zwei Pferden, ... | starting price: 5500,- EUR | |||
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2496 (Autumn Sale Loon, Jan Hendrik van Geb. 1938 Harlingen/Holland. Öl/Lw. Fünf Fischer, einen Kahn an Land ziehend. Im Hintergrund hügeliges Ufer. U.r. ... | starting price: 100,- EUR |
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