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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2454 (Autumn Sale Kool, Sipke 1836 Leewarden - 1902 Blaricum. Öl/Lw. Italienische Genreszene. Um einen Tisch im Freien stehende und sitzende ... | starting price: 3900,- EUR | |||
2471 (Autumn Sale Landschaftsmaler Wohl Schweiz Gouache. Landschaft bei Grindelwald. Im Vordergrund vereinzelt Bauernhäuser mit ... | ||||
2477 (Autumn Sale Landschaftsmaler Öl/Lw., doubl. Norditalienischer Gebirgssee mit einigen kleinen Booten und reicher ... | starting price: 2500,- EUR | |||
2482 (Autumn Sale Laupheimer, Anton 1848 Erbach b. Ulm - 1927 München. Öl/Holz. Halbfigurenbildnis einer auf einem Stuhl sitzenden älteren Dame in ... | starting price: 1600,- EUR | |||
2493 (Autumn Sale Liesegang, Helmuth 1858 Duisburg - 1945 Leipzig. Öl/Holz. "Mühle in Ostfriesland". Blick auf kleine Stadt an einem Flusslauf, im ... | ||||
2497 (Autumn Sale Loos, Friedrich 1797 Graz - 1890 Kiel. Öl/Lw. Hölzerne Staumauer mit Stellfalle, dahinter kleiner See mit herbstlich belaubten ... | starting price: 1800,- EUR | |||
2520 (Autumn Sale Monogrammist Bleistiftzeichnung mit Weißhöhungen. Vereister See mit Eisläufern, am Ufer Windmühle, Turm und ... | starting price: 150,- EUR | |||
2528 (Autumn Sale Monogrammist P.J. Maler 19./ Öl/Malkarton. Studie einer wohlbeleibten Ordensschwester mit weißer Flügelhaube, die ... | starting price: 300,- EUR | |||
2529 (Autumn Sale Monogrammist P.M. Landschaftsmaler um 1900. Öl/Malkarton. Blick auf den Luganer See. Rechts im Vordergrund bewachsener Berghang mit ... | ||||
2536 (Autumn Sale Morris, Charles Greville Geb. 1861 Lancashire. Öl/Lw. Blick auf das Meer mit kleinen Segelbooten, hinterfangen von bergigem Ufer. Links im ... | starting price: 900,- EUR | |||
2554 (Autumn Sale Pembery, R. Englischer Landschaftsmaler Öl/Malkarton. Romantische Flusslandschaft mit Burgruine und ... | ||||
2573 (Autumn Sale Porträtist Pastell. Im Oval Brustbild einer jungen, versonnen blickenden Frau mit braun gelocktem Haar im ... | ||||
2626 (Autumn Sale Schubert, H. Landschaftsmaler 1. Hälfte Öl/Lw. Sommerliche Schwarzwaldlandschaft an einem kleinen ... | starting price: 250,- EUR | |||
2642 (Autumn Sale Spatz, Willy 1861 Düsseldorf - 1931 ebd. Gouache. Die Mutter innig küssendes Kleinkind. U.r. monogr. Beschn. | starting price: 120,- EUR | |||
2643 (Autumn Sale Spindler, Charles 1865 Boersch - 1938 St. Leonard b. Straßburg. Holzmosaik. "Klein Venedig Kolmar". Im Hintergrund der Turm von St. ... | ||||
2653 (Autumn Sale Steinberg, Bruno 1881 Wuppertal-Elberfeld - 1954 Fiesole. Öl/Lw. Blick auf kleine Stadt in sanfter Mittelgebirgslandschaft. U.r. ... | starting price: 680,- EUR | |||
2655 (Autumn Sale Stilllebenmaler 19./ Öl/Lw./Karton. Auf einem Tisch stehende reich dekorierte Vase mit kleinem Blumenstrauß, ... | starting price: 100,- EUR | |||
2656 (Autumn Sale Stilllebenmaler Öl/Holz. Prächtiges Blumen- und Früchtestillleben. In Silberschale üppiges Blumenbukett, ... | ||||
2667 (Autumn Sale Strützel, Otto Leopold 1855 Dessau - 1930 München. Öl/Malkarton. "Küste bei Breno". Steinige Meeresküste, am Horizont kleine Segelboote. ... | starting price: 1600,- EUR | |||
2700 (Autumn Sale Watzelhan, Carl 1867 Mainz - 1942 Wiesbaden. Öl/Malkarton. Anbrandende Wellen, am Horizont kleine Segelboote. U.l. sign. | ||||
2702 (Autumn Sale Weber, E. Landschaftsmaler 19./ Öl/Holz. Hirtenjunge mit seiner kleinen Schafherde auf einem von Bäumen ... | ||||
2714 (Autumn Sale Wolff, C. Landschaftsmaler Mitte Öl/Lw./Hartfaser. Alte Stadt an der Donau bei strahlendem Sonnenschein. ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2746 (Autumn Sale Kollwitz, Käthe 1867 Königsberg - 1945 Moritzburg. Kohlezeichnung. Rückenansicht einer älteren Frau mit gefülltem Henkelkorb, in ... | starting price: 1500,- EUR | ||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2941 (Autumn Sale Marcks, Gerhard 1889 Berlin - 1981 Burgbrohl i.d. Eifel. Holzschnitt. "Der kleine Raucher". Junger Mann mit Pfeife und Mütze, eine ... | |||
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