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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5497 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Havlicek, Vincenz 1864 Wien - 1914 ebd. Forest work. Mixed media on paper, mounted on canvas. Signed and indistinctly inscribed lower ... | ||||
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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. | 2166 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Eggenschwiler, Franz 1930 Solothurn - 2000 Eriswil. E «Rotblau im Feld (red and blue in the field)». Wood print. In the block ... | starting price: 50,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2282 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Reichenberger, Peter 1945 Halle an der Saale - 2004 Köln. E Finger prints. Mixed media on paper. Inscribed «HTA» lower left and signed ... | |||
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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. ... | |||
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0349 (Spring Auctions Flora-Danika-Platte Flora danica plate. Royal Copenhagen 1889 - 1922. Painted and gilt porcelain. Manufacturer's mark. ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 0023 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Klimsch, Fritz 1870 Frankfurt a.M. - 1960 Freiburg i.Br. «Hockende». Entwurf um 1936, Ausführung Rosenthal nach 1957. Porzellan, ... | |||
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