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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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Peiser, Kurt
1887 Antwerp - 1962 Uccle.
«Lundi perdu». Drunkards in the tavern.
Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. Verso titled by a different hand and inscribed «K. Peiser». Support undulated, white shrinking cracks. Restored.
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Kurt Peiser, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, was interested in the theories of communism and the living and working conditions of the working class, which is clearly evident in his oeuvre. His view of poverty and misery is unembellished and unsparing, but also shows the little joys in the lives of the socially disadvantaged. For many workers, between the cramped living conditions and the endless, exhausting shifts in the factories, visiting a pub after work was the only place for recreation and social interaction. There they sang, played music and danced, and a freshly tapped beer made many forget their worries for a moment. The so-called «Lundi perdu», literally lost Monday, is a feast traditionally celebrated in Tournai and Antwerp on the Monday after Epiphany.
Authentication: We would like to thank Mr Pierre Buch, grandson of the artist, for the authentication via 
Peiser, Kurt
1887 Antwerpen - 1962 Ukkel.
«Lundi perdu». Zecher in der Kneipe.
Öl auf Leinwand. U.l. sign. Verso von fremder Hand bet. und bez. «K. Peiser». Bildträger wellig, Frühschwundrisse. Altrest.
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Der Absolvent der Königlichen Akademie der Schönen Künste zu Antwerpen, Kurt Peiser, interessierte sich für die Theorien des Kommunismus und die Lebens- und Arbeitsbedingungen der Arbeiterklasse, was sich in seinem Œuvre deutlich abzeichnet. Dabei ist sein Blick auf Armut und Elend ungeschönt und schonungslos, zeigt aber auch die kleinen Freuden im Leben der sozial Benachteiligten. Für viele Arbeiter war zwischen den beengten Wohnverhältnissen und den endlosen, erschöpfenden Schichten in den Fabriken der Besuch einer Kneipe nach Feierabend der einzige Ort der Erholung und der sozialen Interaktion. Dort wurde gesungen, musiziert und getanzt. Ein frisch gezapftes Bier ließ so Manchen seine Sorgen für einen Moment vergessen. Beim sogenannten «Lundi perdu», wörtlich verlorenen Montag, handelt es sich um ein Festessen, das am Montag nach dem Dreikönigstag traditionell in Tournai und in Antwerpen gefeiert wird.
Echtheitsbestätigung: Wir danken Herrn Pierre Buch, Enkel des Künstlers, für die Bestätigung der Echtheit per