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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Image under artist's copyright. | 2002 (Spring Auctions Bellmer, Hans 1902 Kattowitz - 1975 Paris. «La Danseuse». Pencil on ribbed (Vergé) paper. Signed lower right. Verso on an old ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2114 (Autumn Auctions Biasi, Guido 1933 Neapel - 1983 Paris. Skull creature. Collage and watercolour on paper. Signed and dated (19)61 lower middle. ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2032 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Garstka, Manfred Born 1937 Rastenburg. Sprawling shapes. Pencil on paper. Dated 26.05.(19)67, numbered 75 and signed lower left in ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2117 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Biasi, Guido 1933 Neapel - 1983 Paris. Skull creature. Collage and watercolour on paper. Signed and dated (19)61 lower middle. ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2118 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Biasi, Guido 1933 Neapel - 1983 Paris. «Anta». Oil on canvas. Signed, inscribed «P.» and dated (19)64 lower right. Verso signed, ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2023 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Garstka, Manfred Born 1937 Rastenburg. E Sprawling shapes. Pencil on paper. Dated 26.05.(19)67, numbered 75 and signed lower left in ... | starting price: 150,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2102 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Béothy-Steiner, Anne 1902 Nagyvarad - 1985 Paris. E Arrangement of colours. 1925 - 1935. Six serigraphs. Each signed lower right in ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2198 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Hanko, Hans Born 1923 Wien. E «TV-Gebet (TV-Prayer)». Watercolour on paper. Inscribed lower left. Titled lower left and signed ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2245 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Laloy, Yves 1920 Rennes - 1999 Cancale. E Composition in blue. 1968 - 1969. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Authentication: ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2246 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Laloy, Yves 1920 Rennes - 1999 Cancale. E Geometric shapes. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Authentication: Pascal Laloy, ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2357 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Konvolut Panderma Collection of Panderma magazines. Six issues. Revue de la fin du monde. Published by Carl Laszlo, Panderma, Basel. ... | starting price: 100,- EUR | ||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 1043 (Autumn Auctions Garstka, Manfred Born 1937 Rastenburg. Sprawling shape. Pencil on paper. Dated 26.05.(19)67, numbered 75 and signed lower left in ... | starting price: 300,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1146 (Autumn Auctions Béothy-Steiner, Anne 1902 Nagyvarad - 1985 Paris. Multicoloured composition. Circa 1928. Gouache on cardboard. Signed lower right. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1148 (Autumn Auctions Béothy-Steiner, Anne 1902 Nagyvarad - 1985 Paris. Arrangement of colours. 1925 - 1935. Six serigraphs. Each signed lower right in ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1157 (Autumn Auctions Biasi, Guido 1933 Neapel - 1983 Paris. «Alchemie erotique». Oil on canvas. Signed, inscribed «P» and dated (19)60 lower right. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1158 (Autumn Auctions Biasi, Guido 1933 Neapel - 1983 Paris. «Vases magiques». Oil on canvas. Signed lower right, dated (19)60 and inscribed «P». ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1228 (Autumn Auctions Hanko, Hans Born 1923 Wien. «TV-Gebet (TV-Prayer)». Watercolour on paper. Inscribed lower left. Titled lower left and signed ... | starting price: 300,- EUR | ||
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 ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1262 (Autumn Auctions Laloy, Yves 1920 Rennes - 1999 Cancale. Composition in blue. 1968/69. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Authentication: Pascal ... | starting price: 2500,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1263 (Autumn Auctions Laloy, Yves 1920 Rennes - 1999 Cancale. Geometric shapes. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Authentication: Pascal Laloy, son ... | starting price: 3000,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1270 (Autumn Auctions Laszlo, Carl Born 1923 Pécs. «Aufruf zum Luxus - Manifeste». Paul Eckhardt, Stuttgart 1967. Number 44 of an edition of 500 ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1287 (Autumn Auctions Morandini, Marcello Born 1940 Mantua. «Tre progressioni». Three serigraphs, one lithograph and wood. Portfolio signed and numbered ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1316 (Autumn Auctions Pomodoro, Giò 1930 Orciano di Pesaro - 2002 Mailand. Pewter relief. Pewter casting, mounted on glass. Unsigned. Provenance: Carl ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1359 (Autumn Auctions Vasarely, Victor von 1908 Pécs - 1997 Paris. Abstract composition in red and blue. 1961. Serigraph. Signed lower right in pencil. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1386 (Autumn Auctions La lune en rodage I Edition Panderma, Carl Laszlo, Basel 1960. Collected volume of original drawings, collages, smoke drawings, paper ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1387 (Autumn Auctions La lune en rodage II Edition Panderma, Carl Laszlo, Basel 1965. Number 15 of an edition of 150 copies. Collected volume of original ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1388 (Autumn Auctions La lune en rodage III Edition Panderma, Carl Laszlo, Basel 1977. One of an edition of 150 copies. Collected volume of original collages, ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1393 (Autumn Auctions Radar Edition C.L.A.G. Die Zeitschrift zwischen Basel und New York (the magazine between Basel and New York). Published by Carl Laszlo among ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1399 (Autumn Auctions Konvolut Panderma Collection of Panderma magazines. Eleven issues. Revue de la fin du monde. Published by Carl Laszlo, Panderma, Basel. ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 1861 (Spring Auctions Fontana, Lucio 1899 Rosario - 1968 Cornabbio. E Concetto spaziale. Ball pen and holes on silver coated cardboard, mounted on black ... |
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