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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2107 Haensbergen, Jan van attr. 1642 Utrecht - 1705 The Hague. Italianate ruin landscape with bathing nymphs. Oil on copper. Badly legible ... | order | |||
2114 Wouwerman, Philips follower 1619 Haarlem - 1668 ibid. Riding party setting out. Oil on panel. Unsigned. Verso on a label inscribed by hand ... | ||||
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2115 Adam, Emil 1843 Munich - 1924 ibid. «Morgenscene im Paddok (morning scene in the paddock)». Oil on canvas. Signed lower ... | ||||
2120 Beniscelli, Alberto 1870 Genova - 1952 Alassio. Reflections on the sea. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Verso inscribed with the ... | ||||
2127 Boehle, Fritz 1873 Emmendingen - 1916 Frankfurt a.M. Summer landscape with gathering clouds. Around 1890. Oil on cardboard. ... | ||||
2134 Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Feldsee at the Seebuck. Oil on panel. Signed lower left and ... | ||||
2135 Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest farm in winter. 1930s. Oil on canvas. Signed lower ... | ||||
2137 Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Alte Mühle im Schnee im Schwarzwald (old mill in the snow at the ... | ||||
2138 Hauptmann, Karl 1880 View into a deep snow-covered Black Forest landscape. Oil on ... | ||||
2139 Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest farm in summer. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right ... | ||||
2140 Hauptmann, Karl 1880 The Rankmühle by St. Märgen. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left ... | ||||
2141 Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Birkweghof». Black Forest farm with outbuilding. Pencil and ... | ||||
2142 Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Yach». Black Forest farms in Yach. Pencil on strong wove ... | ||||
2143 Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «St. Märgen». Farm ensemble with pond. Pencil on wove paper. ... | ||||
2144 Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «St. Märgen». View of a Black Forest farm between rising fir ... | ||||
2145 Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Landschaft mit Höfen (landscape with farms)». Vast Black Forest ... | order | |||
2146 Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Landschaft mit Höfen (landscape with farms)». Black Forest farms ... | ||||
2147 Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «St. Märgen». Farm with mill in St. Märgen. Pencil on brownish ... | ||||
2148 Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Kalter Brunnen! Yach!». Pencil on strong wove paper. Unsigned. ... | order | |||
2149 Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Alter Hebelhof (Feldberg) (Old Hebelhof, Feldberg)». Pencil, ... | ||||
2150 Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Hof mit Baum (farm with tree)». Black Forest farm near St. Märgen. ... | ||||
2151 Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Beim Rankhof St. Märgen (at the Rankhof St. Märgen)». Pencil ... | order | |||
2158 Hienl-Merre, Franz 1869 Mainz - 1943 Munich. Winter harness race in St. Moritz. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right and inscribed ... | ||||
2170 Scherres, Carl 1833 Königsberg - 1923 Berlin. On the beach of the Baltic Sea. Oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard. Signed lower ... |
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