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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1243 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) White gold diamond necklace Giovanni Mascheroni, Milan late | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2138 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Ramos, Mel 1935 Sacramento - 2018 Oakland. «Hav-a-Havana -6 (Cohiba 2)». 2005. Lithograph in 21 colours on light cardboard. ... | |||
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3148 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Barbieri, Giovanni Francesco called Il Guercino follower 1591 Cento - 1666 Bologna. Ceres with cornucopia. Oil on canvas, relined. Unsigned. White shrinking cracks. H ... | ||||
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3557 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Piranesi, Giovanni Battista 1720 Mogliano - 1778 Rom. «Veduta interna della Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano». 1748. Etching. Signed lower ... | ||||
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3561 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Piranesi, Giovanni Battista 1720 Mogliano - 1778 Rom. «Veduta della gran Piazza e Basilica di S. Pietro». 1772. Etching. Signed lower right in ... | ||||
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4443 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Piranesi, Giovanni Battista 1720 Mogliano - 1778 Rom. «Veduta del Palazzo Farnese». 1773. Etching on strong wove paper. Signed and titled lower ... | ||||
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4337 (Spring Auctions Flämischer Meister Flemish master circa 1700. Lot and his Daughters. Oil on panel. Unsigned. Verso fragment of an old handwritten label, ... | starting price: 6000,- EUR | |||
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4567 (Spring Auctions Bartolozzi, Francesco 1727 Florenz - 1815 Lissabon. The Virgin and Child with St. Anne. Etching on ribbed (Vergé) paper (watermark). ... | starting price: 200,- EUR | |||
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3021 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Ein Schöne Chronica oder Hystori buch Author Giovanni Boccaccio, 1313 - 1375, translated into German by Heinrich Steinhöwel. Printer Heinrich Steiner, ... | ||||
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4096 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Sechs elegante Stühle Set of six dining chairs. Design Giovanni Gariboldi for Colli, Turin 1950s. Walnut and brown cloth. Maker's plaque. ... | starting price: 1800,- EUR | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2108 (Spring Auctions Die f¸nfzig Novellen des Pecorone Von Ser Giovanni Fiorentino. M¸nchen, Georg M¸ller 1921. Zwei Bde. Mit je sechs Holzschnitten von Hans Pape. ... | |||
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1348 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Lanzirotti, Giovanni Antonio 1839 Palermo - 1921 (?). Junge mit Papagei. Bronze, patiniert. Auf oktogonalem Sockel, sitzender Knabe mit Trauben ... | ||||
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