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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Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3427 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Dischler, Hermann 1866 Snow-covered mountain chapel. Oil on canvas. Signed lower ... | ||||
Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
2085 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Dischler, Hermann 1866 «Blick in die Berge (view of the mountains)». Zwerisberg. St. ... | ||||
2086 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Dischler, Hermann 1866 «Vorfrühling im Schwarzwald (Black Forest in early spring)». ... | ||||
2087 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Dischler, Hermann 1866 «Wintermorgen im Schwarzwaldtal (winter morning in a Black ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3221 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Dischler, Hermann 1866 The end of winter - vast Black Forest landscape with fir ... | ||||
3222 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Dischler, Hermann 1866 «Winterabend am Feldberg (winter evening at Feldberg)». Oil ... | ||||
3223 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Dischler, Hermann 1866 «Altes Schwarzwaldhaus im Schnee (old Black Forest house in ... | ||||
3224 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Dischler, Hermann 1866 Snowmelt at the Black Forest. Oil on canvas, mounted on ... | ||||
3225 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Dischler, Hermann 1866 «Wiesenblumen im Schwarzwald (field flowers at the Black ... | ||||
3226 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Dischler, Hermann 1866 «Sommertag (summer day)». Oil on cardboard. Signed lower ... | ||||
3227 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Dischler, Hermann 1866 «Dorfkirche - Abend (village church - evening)». Oil on ... | ||||
3228 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Dischler, Hermann 1866 «Schwaighof St. Peter». Oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard. ... | ||||
3229 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Dischler, Hermann 1866 «Littenweiler - Naturstudie (Littenweiler - nature study)». ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
4316 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Dischler, Hermann 1866 «Im Wolfsgrund». Oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard. Signed ... | ||||
4317 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Dischler, Hermann 1866 Water mill at the Black Forest. Oil on canvas. Signed lower ... | ||||
4318 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Dischler, Hermann 1866 «Littenweiler - Naturstudie (Littenweiler - nature study)». ... | starting price: 1200,- EUR | |||
4319 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Dischler, Hermann 1866 «Blick nach Oberwihl (view to Oberwihl)». Oil on canvas, ... | ||||
4320 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Dischler, Hermann 1866 «Feldberg-Seebuck, Abend». Oil on structured cardboard. ... | ||||
4321 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Dischler, Hermann 1866 Small Black Forest winter landscape. Oil on canvas, mounted ... | ||||
4322 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Dischler, Hermann 1866 Evening winter landscape with fir trees. Oil on canvas, ... | ||||
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4343 (Autumn Auctions Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1866 Twilight over a Rhine landscape. Oil on canvas. Signed lower ... | ||||
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4410 (Spring Auctions Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1866 «Herbstmorgen am Mathisleweiher bei Hinterzarten (morning in ... | ||||
4411 (Spring Auctions Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1866 Rhine landscape. Oil on canvas, relined. Signed lower right. ... | starting price: 1500,- EUR | |||
4412 (Spring Auctions Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1866 Farmhouse. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. DDDD1866 ... | ||||
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4455 (Autumn Auctions Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 «Engel in Alpersbach Hinterzarten». Oil on canvas. Signed and ... | ||||
4456 (Autumn Auctions Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 «Feldsee». Oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard. Unsigned. ... | ||||
4457 (Autumn Auctions Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 «Sonnen-Aufgang (sunrise)». Oil on canvas, mounted on ... | ||||
4458 (Autumn Auctions Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 «Birkenbach». Oil on canvas, mounted on masonite. Monogrammed ... | ||||
4459 (Autumn Auctions Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 River course in Hinterzarten. Oil on cardboard. Monogrammed ... | ||||
4460 (Autumn Auctions Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 «Selz am Rhein (Selz on the Rhine)». Oil on panel. Signed ... |
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