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 25.–26.11.2022 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2002 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. «Le Baiser». Ball pen and coloured pencil on paper. Signed lower ... | |||
Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2009 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. «Etrurie». Pottery, with brown and black slipware painting. Signed ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2010 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. «Orphée et Eurydice». Pottery with brown as well as black oxide ... | |||
Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016 Jewellery | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1008 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. Lizard brooch. Yellow gold 18k, eight emeralds weighing | |||
Autumn Auctions | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2007 (Autumn Auctions Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. Probably portrait of Marcel Servais. Ink drawing on wove paper. Signed ... | |||
Spring Auctions | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2014 (Spring Auctions Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. À Louis Moysès. Drawing in opaque white on black wove paper. Signed ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2015 (Spring Auctions Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. Faun in profile. Drawing in red ball pen on the title page of ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2016 (Spring Auctions Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. Probably portrait of Marcel Servais. Ink drawing on wove paper. Signed ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | ||
Autumn Auctions | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2139 (Autumn Auctions Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. «Kopf des Orpheus (Orpheus' head)». Mixed media on paper. Signed ... | |||
Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012 Autographs | ||||
3074 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Cocteau, Jean 1889 - 1963. French author, director and painter. L.A.S. Paris 22.I.1953. Single page 4°. Thank you letter ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1017 (Autumn Auctions Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. «Couple à la plage». Pencil on paper. Unsigned. Red estate stamp lower ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1018 (Autumn Auctions Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. «Le baiser». Pencil on paper. Unsigned. Red estate stamp lower left. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1019 (Autumn Auctions Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. «Entre-profils aux arabesques». Coloured pencil on vellum. Signed and ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1020 (Autumn Auctions Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. «La main de l'artist». Pencil on vellum. Signed and dated July 1945 ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1021 (Autumn Auctions Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. Mon Cher Matarasso. Ball pen and coloured pencil on paper. Dated ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1022 (Autumn Auctions Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. Portrait de femme. Ink on vellum. Dedication «à Hildegard Sternberg - ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1023 (Autumn Auctions Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. Self portrait. Charcoal on paper. Signed and dated 1955 lower left in ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1024 (Autumn Auctions Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. Souvenir amical. Circa 1950. Ball pen on paper. Signed and with ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1025 (Autumn Auctions Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. «Médiéval». Felt-tip pen. Signed and dated 1959 lower right. Minor ... | |||
Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2049 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. «Médiéval». Filzschreiber. Profilansicht eines Junkers vor dem ... | |||
Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1679 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. Lithographie. «Der Faun». Verschiedene Szenen mit Faun und Liebespaar. ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1680 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. Farblithographie. «La lettre d'amour». Skizzenhaftes Profil eines in ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1681 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. Farblithographie. «Les amoureux». Profil eines sich küssenden Paares. ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1682 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. Farblithographie. Profil eines sich küssenden Paares. Mit Bleistift ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1683 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. Farblithographie. Frau mit Hut. Brustbildnis einer Dame mit ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1684 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. Farblithographie. Pietà. Mann mit Lendentuch, in den Armen einer Frau ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1685 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. Farblithographie. Profile zweier Köpfe. Mit Buntstift u.r. sign. ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | ||
Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2142 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. Buntstiftzeichnung. Skizze eines Kopfes im Profil. Im Hintergrund ... | |||
Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008 Modern Painting | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1720 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. Buntstiftzeichnung. Skizze eines Kopfes im Profil. Im Hintergrund ... | starting price: 600,- EUR | ||
Autumn Auction | ||||
0034 (Autumn Auction Aschenbecher André Hunebelle, Paris um 1920 - 1930. Farbloses, transparentes Glas, partiell mattiert und rosafarben unterfangen. ... | starting price: 250,- EUR |
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