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. | 2246 (Autumn Auctions Stöhrer, Walter 1937 Stuttgart - 2000 Scholderup. Untitled. 1958. Mixed media on canvas. Verso dated 1958 and inscribed «Oben», ... | starting price: 12500,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2261 (Autumn Auctions Uecker, Günther Geb. 1930 Wendorf. Splinter. Embossing and woodcut on laid paper. Inscribed «e/a» lower left and signed and dated ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2262 (Autumn Auctions Uecker, Günther Geb. 1930 Wendorf. Splinter. Embossing and woodcut on laid paper. Signed and dated (19)92 lower right in pencil. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2267 (Autumn Auctions Uecker, Günther Geb. 1930 Wendorf. «Zum Schweigen der Schrift (dedicated to the silence of the script)». Comprising 17 photographs ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2273 (Autumn Auctions Villalba, Darío Geb. 1939 Madrid. Double image. 1978. Mixed media, photograph and collage on cardboard. Signed and dated (19)78 ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2137 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Chen, Jiagang Born 1962 Sichuan. «Temptation-25 - Afterlight». Lambda print. Inscribed in Chinese, numbered 3/12, signed and ... | starting price: 10000,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2168 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Griffa, Giorgio Born 1936 Turin. Untitled. 1970. Multiple. Acrylic on canvas. Verso signed and numbered 4/8 in pencil. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2169 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Griffa, Giorgio Born 1936 Turin. Composition with stripes. Watercolour on paper. Signed and dated 1977 lower right in pencil. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2277 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Tinguely, Jean 1925 Fribourg - 1991 Bern. Preparatory drawing for «Requiem pour une feuille morte». Brown ink on paper. Signed and ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2292 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Wang, Ganfeng Chinese photographer 20th C. Collection of photographs «Gang of one». 23 pieces. Partially signed, dated and inscribed ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2298 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Windheim, Dorothee von Born 1945 Volmerdingsen. «Zwiesprache - 5 Augenpaare (dialogue - five pairs of eyes)». Mixed media, aluminium box ... | |||
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3045 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Zwei Monate im Kaukasus Author Ernst Leverkus 1922 - 1998. Printer/publisher Bonn, February 1888. Obviously private printing in small edition, ... | ||||
3071 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Über die Ausgangspunkte und Polarisation der X-Strahlen Author count Boris Borissovitsch Golizyn, Prince Galitzin, 1862 - 1916. Printer Mémoires de L'Académie Impériale de ... | ||||
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3082 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Schmidt, Arno 1914 - 1979. Writer. Large format album sheet with mounted photograph and signature, no location. and no year. ... | ||||
3103 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Dorsch, Katharina (Käthe) 1890 - 1957. German-Austrian stage and film actress. 184 parts: eleven L.A.S., 55 L.S., multiple long additions in ... | ||||
3104 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Riefenstahl, Leni (Helene Bertha Amalia) 1902 - 2003. Actress, film director and photographer. Six L.A.S., three L.S. and one postcard with signature, ... | ||||
3105 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) West, Mae 1893 - 1980. American film actress and screenwriter. Hand signed, Photography from circa 1940 in good condition, ... | ||||
3106 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) West, Mae 1893 - 1980. American film actress and screenwriter. Photography from 1962, original dedication to bottom left; ... | ||||
Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2008 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Buchheim, Lothar-Günther 1918 Weimar - 2007 Starnberg. E Upper Bavarian landscape. Watercolour on paper, mounted on cardboard. Signed lower ... | starting price: 2300,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2131 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Beuys, Joseph 1921 Kleve - 1985 Düsseldorf. E «Honigpumpe am Arbeitsplatz (honeypump at work place)». Collage and offset prints ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2223 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Janssen, Horst 1929 Hamburg - 1995 ebd. E Portrait of a girl. Pencil and coloured pencil on paper. Dedication «Für Klaus-Herbert ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2293 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Saint Phalle, Niki de 1930 Neuilly-sur-Seine - 2002 San Diego. E «Le Golem - Jerusalem». Portfolio, comprising two lithographs in ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2345 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Wilding, Ludwig Born 1927 Grünstadt. E «Kunst (= Wahrheit) ist gefährlich sie muss hinter Gitter!». Multiple, offset and plastic. ... | starting price: 200,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2355 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Eine Krone der Kochkunst «Eine Krone der Kochkunst - oder ein Abend im Erbprinzen zu Ettlingen (a crown of culinary art - or an evening in the ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2358 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Konvolut Kataloge Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover Collection of catalogues of the Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover. 118 catalogues. Comprising «Joan Miró», 5/6/1989. ... | |||
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4548 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) World Heavyweight Championship Black and white image of Sonny Liston and Cassius Clay and two autographed cards. DDDDSchwarz-Weiß-Photographie von ... | ||||
Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
4645 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 Freiburg i.Br. - 1935 Hinterzarten. E «Schwarzwaldhaus im Schnee (Black Forest house in the snow)». Oil on ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 1004 (Autumn Auctions Bellmer, Hans 1902 Kattowitz - 1975 Paris. «Gesetzte Frau (set woman)». Pencil and white pencil on paper, mounted on cardboard. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1013 (Autumn Auctions Buchheim, Lothar-Günther 1918 Weimar - 2007 Starnberg. Upper Bavarian landscape. Watercolour on paper, mounted on cardboard. Signed lower ... | starting price: 4500,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1183 (Autumn Auctions Christo, d.i. Christo Javacheff Born 1935 Gabrovo. «Empaquetage». Brown fabric with red and brown ropes. Verso signed. and dated (19)63. ... |
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