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.
Carl Spitzweg |
There are 432 matches. | ||||
| ||||
In our current auction you will also find works by Carl Spitzweg. | ||||
Autumn Auctions | ||||
4405 (Autumn Auctions Deutscher Genremaler German genre painter second half | starting price: 2000,- EUR | |||
4413 (Autumn Auctions Genremaler Genre painter probably | ||||
4414 (Autumn Auctions Genremaler Genre painter 18th/ | ||||
Autumn Auctions | ||||
4469 (Autumn Auctions Erlandsen, G. Genre painter | starting price: 4000,- EUR | |||
4516 (Autumn Auctions Müller-Lingke, Albert 1844 Altenburg - 1930 München. Two Tyrolese in woodshed. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Minor ... | starting price: 1000,- EUR | |||
Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012 Paintings and Drawings 15th to 18th Century | ||||
5410 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Deutscher Genremaler German genre painter second half 17th C. Artist's portrait. Oil on panel. Unsigned. Panel crack restored. ... | starting price: 4000,- EUR | |||
5411 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Deutscher Genremaler German genre painter second half 17th C. Deer hunt. Oil on canvas, wax relined. Monogrammed «JW» lower right. Minor ... | ||||
5420 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Genremaler Genre painter probably 17th C. Two dogs. Oil on canvas, relined. Unsigned. Craquelure, ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | |||
5421 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Genremaler Genre painter 18th/19th C. Fishermen at a river. Oil on canvas, relined. Unsigned. DDDD18./19. ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | |||
5430 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Italienischer Genremaler Italian genre painter 18th C. Workers at sea. Oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard. Unsigned. Verso on stretcher frame ... | ||||
5452 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Süddeutscher Genremaler South German genre painter 18th C. Monk's feast. Oil on sheet zinc. Unsigned. DDDD18. Jh. Mönchsgelage. ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
5479 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Erlandsen, G. Genre painter 19th C. Peers in interior. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. Minor retouching. DDDDGenremaler 19. ... | starting price: 8000,- EUR | |||
5523 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Lauyot, E. Dutch genre painter early 20th C. Portrait of a girl. Oil on cardboard, mounted on panel. Signed lower left. Minor ... | starting price: 1200,- EUR | |||
Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012 Paintings and Drawings 15th to 18th Century | ||||
4595 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Genremaler Genre painter 18th C. Antique scenery. Oil on panel. Unsigned. Restored crack in the panel. DDDD18. ... | starting price: 2500,- EUR | |||
Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
4656 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Genremaler Genre painter mid 19th C. At the fire place. Oil on cardboard, mounted on panel. Unsigned. DDDDMitte 19. Jh. Am ... | starting price: 800,- EUR | |||
4709 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Nèmeth, Bèla Hungarian genre painter mid 19th C. Wintry Hungarian village. Oil on panel. Signed lower right. DDDDUngarischer ... | ||||
4710 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Nèmeth, Bèla Hungarian genre painter mid 19th C. Hungarian village. Oil on panel. Signed lower right. DDDDUngarischer ... | starting price: 300,- EUR | |||
4731 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Stevens, (?) Genre painter probably Belgium second half 19th C. Lady with parrot. Oil on panel. Signed and dated (18)67 lower ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1008 (Autumn Auctions Bosch, Harald Genre painter Düsseldorf 20th C. St. Martin's procession in Düsseldorf old town. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1009 (Autumn Auctions Bosch, Harald Genre painter Düsseldorf 20th C. Town hall square in Düsseldorf old town. Oil on canvas, without stretcher frame. ... | starting price: 300,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1046 (Autumn Auctions Golzman, Dimitri Russian genre painter 20th C. Market in Baku. 1955. Oil crayon and pencil on paper. Signed upper left in pencil. Verso ... | starting price: 300,- EUR | ||
Autumn Auctions | ||||
2773 (Autumn Auctions Französischer Genremaler French genre painter 18th C. Morning toilet. Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Minor pigment loss, indentations, craquelure, ... | starting price: 2500,- EUR | |||
2774 (Autumn Auctions Genremaler Genre painter 18th C. In the parlour. Oil on panel. Unsigned. Verso indistinctly inscribed. Verso remains of a seal. ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions | ||||
2811 (Autumn Auctions Bierle, Rudolf Genre painter circa 1910. Flower market. Oil on canvas. Signed and indistinctly inscribed lower ... | starting price: 800,- EUR | |||
2812 (Autumn Auctions Bierle, Rudolf Genre painter circa 1910. Canale Grande in Venice. Oil on canvas. Signed and indistinctly inscribed lower right. ... | starting price: 800,- EUR | |||
2820 (Autumn Auctions Deutscher Genremaler German genre painter 19th C. Scholar reading a book. Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Minor retouching. DDDD19. ... | starting price: 1500,- EUR | |||
2835 (Autumn Auctions Französischer Genremaler French genre painter 19th C. Gallant Rococo couple in a boudoir. Oil on metal. Unsigned. DDDD19. Jh. Galantes ... | starting price: 600,- EUR | |||
2836 (Autumn Auctions Französischer Genremaler French genre painter 19th C. Two reclining ladies in a park landscape. Oil on masonite. Remains of a signature lower ... | starting price: 800,- EUR | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2867 (Autumn Auctions Klein, H. Genre painter 20th C. Town at a river. Oil on panel. Signed lower right. Crack. DDDDGenremaler 20. Jh. Stadt am ... | |||
2883 (Autumn Auctions Niederländischer Genremaler Dutch genre painter 19th C. In the parlour. Oil on canvas. Indistinctly signed lower right. Remains of an Uffizi wax ... | starting price: 650,- EUR |
| ||||