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. | 3097 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Geiger, Max Meinrad Born 1954 Inzlingen, lives and works ibid. «Stele 1». Spruce, carved and lacquered in white, on a square wooden ... | starting price: 300,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3098 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Geiger, Max Meinrad Born 1954 Inzlingen, lives and works ibid. «Stele 2». Spruce, carved and varnished in white, on a square wooden ... | starting price: 300,- EUR | ||
Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2080 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Geiger, Rupprecht 1908 Munich - 2009 ibid. Untitled. Orange. 2002. Serigraph with original pigments on BFK Rives 300 g wove paper. ... | |||
Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2164 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Cavael, Rolf 1898 Königsberg - 1979 Munich. «No 64/Jn 11». 1964. Oil on masonite. Monogrammed lower right. Verso signed and ... | |||
Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2124 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Geiger, Rupprecht 1908 München - 2009 ebd. «Plakat für das Projekt ‹Flagge zeigen, Für Demokratie - Gegen Gewalt und Fremdenhaß› ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2125 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Geiger, Rupprecht 1908 München - 2009 ebd. «Modulation». 1969. Serigraph in colours on light cardboard. Signed lower right. H ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2130 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Geiger, Rupprecht 1908 München - 2009 ebd. «Blauvioletter Kreis auf Schwarz / lila und blauer Kreis auf schwarz (violet-blue circle ... | |||
Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2153 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Pfahler, Georg Karl 1926 Emetzheim - 2002 ebd. «SP.O.R./ZAD». Acrylic on canvas. Verso signed, dated 1964 and titled. ... | |||
Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015 Books and Atlases | ||||
4473 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Des Lahrer hinkenden Boten Published by J.H. Geiger, Lahr 1821. Second edition. Not collated. Folded map, four woodcuts and twelve woodcut ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2164 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Geiger, Rupprecht 1908 München - 2009 ebd. Coloured roll. Wood. Verso numbered 38/60 and signed. Minor pigment loss. Provenance: ... | |||
Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2182 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Geiger, Rupprecht 1908 München - 2009 ebd. E Coloured roll. Wood. Verso numbered 46/60 and signed. Provenance: private ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2183 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Geiger, Rupprecht 1908 München - 2009 ebd. E Yellow square on white and red. Serigraph. Numbered 4/50 lower left and signed lower ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2184 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Geiger, Rupprecht 1908 München - 2009 ebd. E «Moduliertes Rot (modulated red)». 1962. Serigraph. Numbered 3/50 lower left and signed ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2185 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Geiger, Rupprecht 1908 München - 2009 ebd. E «Blau-Schwarz (blue black)». 1958. Lithograph in colours. Signed and numbered 6/30 lower ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2002 (Spring Auctions Geiger, Rupprecht 1908 M¸nchen - 2009 ebd. E ´Variation Runde Farbe I (variation round colour I)ª. Serigraph in colours. Signed lower ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2003 (Spring Auctions Geiger, Rupprecht 1908 M¸nchen - 2009 ebd. E ´Variation Runde Farbe II (variation round colour II)ª. Serigraph in colours. Lower ... | |||
Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010 Sculptures and Bronzes | ||||
1438 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Geiger, E. Bildhauer Bronze, patiniert. Der Wartende. Auf Natursockel, stehender junger Mann mit Mantel ... | ||||
Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2236 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Thieler, Fred 1916 Königsberg - 1999 Berlin. Mischtechnik/Lw. «Flächenrelief 27». Auf rot-blauem Grund, mit Rot übermalte ... | |||
Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
1903 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Geiger, Karl Joseph 1822 Wien - 1905 ebd. Gouache. Jung und Alt. Auf einem Spazierweg im Vordergrund ein junges gutgekleidetes Paar mit ... | starting price: 700,- EUR | |||
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2088 (Spring Sale Geiger, Richard 1870 Ungvár - 1945 Budapest. Mischtechnik. Landzunge mit von Bäumen halb verdecktem Pavillon und am Ufer liegendem ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2471 (Winter Sale Geiger, Rupprecht Geb. 1908 München. Farbserigraphie. Abstrakte, horizontal angelegte Komposition in leuchtendem Gelb und Orange. ... |
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