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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1157 (Autumn Sale Doppelter Kuckuck-Augenwender Süddeutsch 2. Hälfte | ||||
1158 (Autumn Sale Porzellanschilduhr Süddeutsch 2. Hälfte | starting price: 150,- EUR | |||
1162 (Autumn Sale Biedermeier-Säulenuhr Deutsch um 1870. Ebonisiertes Holz und Porzellan, glasiert, bemalt und goldstaffiert. Hochrechteckiges, gestuftes ... | ||||
1167 (Autumn Sale Schwarzwälder Porzellanschilduhr Süddeutsch 2. Hälfte | starting price: 180,- EUR | |||
1169 (Autumn Sale Porzellanschilduhr Süddeutsch Ende | starting price: 180,- EUR | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1174 (Autumn Sale Kleine Schwarzwälder Lackschilduhr Süddeutsch Ende | starting price: 180,- EUR | ||
1187 (Autumn Sale Schwarzwälder Miniaturuhr Süddeutsch Ende | ||||
1191 (Autumn Sale Schwarzwälder Lackschilduhr Süddeutsch Ende | ||||
1194 (Autumn Sale Schwarzwälder Großschilduhr Süddeutsch um 1860. Holz und Metall. Hochrechteckiges Gehäuse, bombiertes Lackschild mit gebogtem Abschluss. Im Bogen ... | ||||
1200 (Autumn Sale Schwarzwälder Lackschilduhr Süddeutsch Anfang | ||||
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1749 (Autumn Sale Blumenmaler Aquarell. Buntes Blumenbukett mit Sonnenblumen, Nelken und anderen Blüten. U.r. unleserlich ... | starting price: 80,- EUR | |||
1750 (Autumn Sale Blumenmaler Hinterglasmalerei. Zwei prächtige, rosafarben blühende Orchideenblüten. Unsign. H. 23, ... | starting price: 80,- EUR | |||
1751 (Autumn Sale Blumenmalerin 19./ Zwei Aquarelle. Eine blaue und eine weiße Iris. Unsign. Leicht stockfleckig. Knickspuren. ... | ||||
1901 (Autumn Sale Kreyder, Alexis 1839 Andlau/Elsass - 1912 Paris. Öl/Lw. Prächtiges Blumenstillleben in Henkelvase mit Papageientulpen, Lilien, ... | ||||
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0312 (Spring Sale Biedermeiertasse mit Untertasse | starting price: 40,- EUR | |||
0427 (Spring Sale Prunkteller Fürstenberg | ||||
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1191 (Spring Sale Schwarzwälder Lackschilduhr Süddeutsch um 1840. Holz und Metall. Hochrechteckiges Gehäuse, bombiertes Lackschild mit gebogtem Abschluss. Im Bogen ... | starting price: 250,- EUR | |||
1212 (Spring Sale Biedermeier-Säulenuhr Frankreich um 1860. Ebonisiertes Holz und Porzellan, goldstaffiert. Hochrechteckiges Gehäuse mit leicht gewölbtem ... | starting price: 220,- EUR | |||
1230 (Spring Sale Schwarzwalduhr Süddeutsch um 1840. Holz, bemalt. Hochrechteckiges Gehäuse, bombiertes Lackschild mit Apfelrosen und Blumenmalerei. ... | ||||
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0399 (Winter Sale Teller Meißen | starting price: 80,- EUR | |||
0492 (Winter Sale Saucière Meißen Ende | starting price: 225,- EUR | |||
0533 (Winter Sale Teller Ludwigsburg 2. Hälfte | starting price: 100,- EUR | |||
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2365 (Winter Sale Blumenmalerin 19./ Gouache. Im Oval kleiner Strauß Erdbeerfrüchte und -blüten. Unsign. H. 13, | ||||
2366 (Winter Sale Blumenmalerein 19./ Gouache. Im Oval weiß blühender Obstzweig. Unsign. H. 12, | ||||
2367 (Winter Sale Blumenmalerin Gouache. Im Oval kleiner Strauß mit Maiglöckchen und Vergissmeinnicht. Unsign. H. 18, | ||||
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0462 (Autumn Sale Saucière Meißen Ende | starting price: 300,- EUR | |||
0474 (Autumn Sale Speiseservice KPM, Berlin 1914 - 1917. Porzellan, glasiert, bemalt und goldstaffiert. 39-tlg. Bestehend aus acht Speisetellern, ... | ||||
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2248 (Autumn Sale Asmus Blumenmaler Gouache. Rot-weißer Dahlienstrauß mit Gräsern. Mit Bleistift u.r. sign. | ||||
2265 (Autumn Sale Blumenmalerin Gouache/feines Gewebe. Zwölf Blumen- und Insektenmotive. Unsign. Vorne Widmung "Meinen lieben ... |
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