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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Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3127 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Vienna - 2000 on the Queen Elizabeth II off New Zealand. «10002 nights Homo Humus come va how do you do». ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3128 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Vienna - 2000 on the Queen Elizabeth II off New Zealand. «Columbus Rainy Day in India» from «Regentag - Look ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3129 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Vienna - 2000 on the Queen Elizabeth II off New Zealand. «10002 nights Homo Humus come va how do you do». ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3130 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Vienna - 2000 on the Queen Elizabeth II off New Zealand. «Spiralental (spiral valley)». Rosenthal Glas und ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3131 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Vienna - 2000 on the Queen Elizabeth II off New Zealand. «10002 nights Homo Humus come va how do you ... | |||
Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2088 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Vienna - 2000 on the Queen Elizabeth II off New Zealand. «Regentag - Look at it on a rainy day». 1971/72. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2089 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Vienna - 2000 on the Queen Elizabeth II off New Zealand. «Das Hundertwasserhaus (the Hundertwasser house)». ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2090 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Vienna - 2000 on the Queen Elizabeth II off New Zealand. «10002 nights Homo Humus come va how do you do». ... | starting price: 1500,- EUR | ||
Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2180 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Vienna - 2000 at sea off Australia. «In Gamba». Lithograph in colours and serigraph in colours with metal ... | |||
Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2101 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Vienna - 2000 at sea off Australia. «In Gamba». Lithograph in colours and serigraph in colours with metal ... | starting price: 1500,- EUR | ||
Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2157 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Wien - 2000 auf See vor Australien. «In Gamba». Lithograph in colours and serigraph in colours with metal ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2158 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Wien - 2000 auf See vor Australien. «Testament in Gelb (testament in yellow)». Serigraph in colours over ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2159 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Wien - 2000 auf See vor Australien. «Sad not so sad is rainshine from rainday on a rainy day». Serigraph in ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2160 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Wien - 2000 auf See vor Australien. «Werkverzeichnis | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2161 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Wien - 2000 auf See vor Australien. «Hundertwasser». With texts by Wieland Schmied. Published by Werner ... | |||
Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2117 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Wien - 2000 auf See vor Australien. «Regentag - Look at it on a rainy day». 1971/72. Complete portfolio, ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2118 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Wien - 2000 auf See vor Australien. «Testament in Gelb (testament in yellow)». Screen print in colours over ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2119 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Wien - 2000 auf See vor Australien. «10002 nights Homo Humus come va how do you do». Photolithograph in ... | |||
Autumn Auctions | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2170 (Autumn Auctions Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Wien - 2000 auf See vor Australien. «Look at it on a rainy day». 1971/72. Ten serigraphs in colours with metal ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2171 (Autumn Auctions Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Wien - 2000 auf See vor Australien. «Landung - Atterrissage». Proof. Watercoloured aquatint-etching in ... | starting price: 40000,- EUR | ||
Autumn Auctions | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1239 (Autumn Auctions Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Wien - 2000 auf See vor Australien. «Laszlo von Hundertwasser (Laszlo by Hundertwasser)». Offset and oil on ... | |||
Spring Auctions | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1870 (Spring Auctions Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Wien - 2000 auf See vor Australien. E ´Die Augen von Machu Picch™ (the eyes of Machu Picch™)ª. Lithograph in ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1871 (Spring Auctions Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Wien - 2000 auf See vor Australien. E ´Automobil mit roten Regentropfen (automobile with red raindrops)ª. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1872 (Spring Auctions Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Wien - 2000 auf See vor Australien. E ´Seereise II - Reise zur See und mit der Bahn (Cruise II - Voyage at sea ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1873 (Spring Auctions Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Wien - 2000 auf See vor Australien. E ´Homo humus come va 10001 nightsª. Serigraph and foil inlay. Verso ... | |||
Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2150 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Wien - 2000 auf See vor Australien. Farbserigraphie und Metalldruck. «Good morning city bleeding town». Hoch ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2151 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Wien - 2000 auf See vor Australien. Feingold. «Window Spiral». Verso sign., 22/100 num., bez., bet., ... | |||
Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008 Modern Prints | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1976 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Acht Plakate der Olympischen Spiele München 1972 Siebdrucke. U.a. von Allan Jones, Victor Vasarely, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Allan Davie, David Hockney, Paul ... | |||
Autumn Auction | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2318 (Autumn Auction Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Wien - 2000 auf See vor Australien. Farbholzschnitt. «Homo Humus Humanitas Jinrui Ai» aus der Mappe «Joy of ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2319 (Autumn Auction Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Wien - 2000 auf See vor Australien. Zehn Farbserigraphien in Original-Holzkassette. Aus der Reihe «Look at it ... |
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