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 | ||||
3411 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. «Sophienruhe». View from Badenweiler over Müllheim to the Rhine Valley. Oil on ... | ||||
3412 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. «Blauenhaus mit Blick zu den Schweizer Alpen (Blauenhaus with view of the Swiss ... | ||||
3413 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. Landscape in Provence. Oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard. Signed lower right ... | ||||
3414 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. The old market garden in Badenweiler. Oil on canvas. Monogrammed lower left. ... | ||||
3415 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. Summer flowers in a blue vase. Oil on canvas. Monogrammed lower right and lower ... | ||||
Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
2076 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. «Landschaft bei Niederweiler (landscape near Niederweiler)». Oil on plywood. ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
4297 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. Still life with fruits, a wine bottle and a green plant. Oil on wooden veneer. ... | ||||
4298 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. «Studie Blauen (view over Badenweiler on the mountain, called Blauen)». Oil on ... | ||||
4299 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. «Bahnübergang Karlsruhe (train crossing Karlsruhe)». Etching with drypoint on ... | ||||
4300 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. Landscape at Markgräflerland. Oil on brownish wove paper, mounted on cardboard. ... | ||||
4301 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. Small landscape at Markgräflerland with a cowherd. Watercolour over pencil on ... | ||||
4302 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. View of a farm with cows. India ink drawing, coloured with watercolour, on ... | ||||
4303 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. Wanderers looking down the valley. Watercolour on strong, cream wove paper. ... | ||||
4304 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. View of Sisseln. Watercolour over pencil on strong, cream wove paper. ... | ||||
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4325 (Autumn Auctions Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. Larkspur in a blue jug. Oil on brownish strong wove paper, mounted on plywood. ... | ||||
4326 (Autumn Auctions Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. Small landscape at Markgräflerland, Eggenertal. Oil on cardboard. ... | ||||
4327 (Autumn Auctions Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. «Rheinsträssle». Oil on structured cardboard. Signed lower right. Verso ... | ||||
4328 (Autumn Auctions Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. Garden near Oberweiler. Oil on canvas. Monogrammed lower left. Minor paint ... | ||||
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4387 (Spring Auctions Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. «Römerberg bei Niederweiler (Römerberg near Niederweiler)». Oil on cardboard. ... | ||||
4388 (Spring Auctions Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. «Landschaft bei Britzingen (landscape near Britzingen)». Oil on cardboard. ... | ||||
4389 (Spring Auctions Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. «Markgräfler Kirche (St. Ilgen)». Oil on cardboard. Signed lower left. Verso ... | ||||
4390 (Spring Auctions Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. «Dorf im Winter (village in winter)». Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. Verso on ... | ||||
4391 (Spring Auctions Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. Cottage garden. Oil on canvas. Monogrammed lower left. Minor paint ... | starting price: 2500,- EUR | |||
4392 (Spring Auctions Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. Still life with flowers. Oil on canvas. Monogrammed twice lower right and lower ... | ||||
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4444 (Autumn Auctions Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. Markgräfler peasant at the vineyard cottage near Oberweiler. Oil on canvas, ... | ||||
4445 (Autumn Auctions Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. Study of Rhine plain. Circa 1930. Oil on masonite. Unsigned.Verso confirmed and ... | ||||
4446 (Autumn Auctions Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. View from Badenweiler to the Vosges. Oil on cardboard. Scratched signature and ... | ||||
4447 (Autumn Auctions Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. Alley of trees with wayside cross. Oil on cardboard. Signed and dated (19)48 ... | ||||
4448 (Autumn Auctions Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. Three oil sketches for harvest paintings. Oil on paper, mounted on panel. Each ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
5464 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. «Häuser in Kleinkembs (houses in Kleinkembs)». Circa 1925. Oil on canvas. Signed ... |
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