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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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Morrisseau, Norval
1932 Sand Point Reserve/Beardmore - 2007 Toronto.
«Shaman Vision Series One».
1980. Portfolio consisting of six serigraphs in colours on wove paper, mounted on backing cardboard. «Astral Children Community», «A Child in Astral Plain», «A Vision to its Soul», «Fish Unity in Cosmic Sea», «Native Unity» and «This is the Way it is». Each signed lower right and numbered 82/195 lower left. In capitals titled lower middle. Two sheets with small stains and minor tears at the margins.
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Complete portfolio from an edition of 195 signed, numbered and titled copies of the series «Shaman Vision Series One». Published by ALVO Canadian Art Limited, Ontario. Printed by Superb Graphics, Toronto.
Norval Morrisseau, also known as Copper Thunderbird, was an indigenous Canadian artist of the Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek and a prominent member of the artist's group «Indian Group of Seven», whose oeuvre focuses on native myths and traditions.
Certificate of authenticity: Albert Volpe, president ALVO Canadian Art Limited, Ontario.
Provenance: purchased at the NEXUS art gallery, Toronto, in 1983; since then private collection Munich.
Invoice: NEXUS art gallery, Toronto, 19.02.1983.
Catalogue raisonné: Norval Morrisseau Heritage Society (https://morrisseauunlimited.wordpress.com) SU 
Morrisseau, Norval
1932 Sand Point Reserve/Beardmore - 2007 Toronto.
«Shaman Vision Series One».
1980. Portfolio, bestehend aus sechs Farbserigraphien auf Velin, auf Unterlagekarton montiert. «Astral Children Community», «A Child in Astral Plain», «A Vision to its Soul», «Fish Unity in Cosmic Sea», «Native Unity» und «This is the Way it is». Jeweils u.r. sign. und u.l. 82/195 num. Mitte u. in Versalien bet. Zwei Blätter mit kl. Flecken und min. Randeinrissen.
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Vollständiges Portfolio aus einer Auflage von 195 signierten, nummerierten und betitelten Exemplaren der Serie «Shaman Vision Series One». Herausgeben von ALVO Canadian Art Limited, Ontario. Gedruckt bei Superb Graphics, Toronto.
Norval Morrisseau, auch bekannt als Copper Thunderbird, war ein indigener kanadischer Künstler der Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek und ein bedeutendes Mitglied der Künstlervereinigung «Indian Group of Seven», der in seinem Œuvre insbesondere Mythen und Traditionen der indigenen Völker thematisiert.
Authentizitätszertifikat: Albert Volpe, Präsident von ALVO Canadian Art Limited, Ontario.
Provenienz: erworben 1983 in der NEXUS art gallery, Toronto; seitdem Privatsammlung München.
Rechnung: NEXUS art gallery, Toronto, 19.02.1983.
Werkverzeichnis: Norval Morrisseau Heritage Society (https://morrisseauunlimited.wordpress.com) SU