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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1969 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Liebich, Curt 1868 Wesel - 1937 Gutach. Öl/Karton. Schwarzwaldhaus im Schnee. Auf einer Anhöhe im winterlichen Sonnenschein ein ... | ||||
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2243 (Autumn Auctions 26.–28.11.2009) Liebich, Curt 1868 Wesel - 1937 Gutach. Öl/Lw. Taufgang im Gutachtal. Vor einem Schwarzwaldhaus eine festtäglich gekleidete ... | ||||
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1941 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 Freiburg i.Br. Öl/Karton. Blick in weite idyllische Vorfrühlingslandschaft in den Vogesen. ... | ||||
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1540 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 Freiburg i.Br. Öl/Karton. Blick in weite idyllische Vorfrühlingslandschaft in den Vogesen. ... | starting price: 600,- EUR | |||
1541 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 Freiburg i.Br. Öl/Lw. Morgensonne. Romantische Winterlandschaft in Fahl am Feldberg im ... | ||||
1566 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Kratz, Georg Schwarzwaldmaler Aquarell. «Grüne Matten». Sommerliche Schwarzwaldlandschaft mit Gehöft. Auf ... | ||||
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1836 (Autumn Auction Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 Freiburg i.Br. Öl/Karton. Frühling im Dreisamtal. Im Vordergrund idyllischer Flusslauf mit ... | ||||
1878 (Autumn Auction Ketterer, E. Schwarzwaldmaler Öl/Hartfaser. Vor idyllischer spätsommerlicher Schwarzwaldkulisse Bauernhaus, ... | starting price: 200,- EUR | |||
2025 (Autumn Auction Schwarzwaldmaler Öl/Karton. Idyllische schneebedeckte Winterlandschaft mit Schwarzwaldhaus. U.l. monogr. «CH» ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | |||
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1954 (Spring Sale Ketterer, E. Schwarzwaldmaler Öl/Hartfaser. Vor idyllischer spätsommerlicher Schwarzwaldkulisse Bauernhaus, ... | starting price: 300,- EUR | |||
1995 (Spring Sale Lyongrün, Arnold 1871 Domnau - (?). Öl/Lw. «Am Feldberg». Blick in idyllisches Schwarzwaldtal mit Nadelbaumwäldern. U.l. sign. Verso ... | ||||
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2266 (Autumn Sale Falk-Breitenbach, Eugen 1903 Offenburg - 1979 Hausach. Öl/Hartfaser. Sommerliche Waldlichtung. U.l. sign. und 1974 dat. H. 41, | ||||
2368 (Autumn Sale Lyongrün, Arnold 1871 Domnau - (?). Öl/Lw. «Am Feldberg». Blick in idyllisches Schwarzwaldtal mit Nadelbaumwäldern. U.l. sign. Verso ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | |||
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2108 (Spring Sale Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 Freiburg i.Br. Öl/Lw. «Im Prechtal». Von Birken umstandener Bachlauf in herbstlicher ... | ||||
2109 (Spring Sale Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 Freiburg i.Br. Öl/Malkarton. Schwarzwaldlandschaft im Vorfrühling mit von Sumpfdotterblumen ... | ||||
2110 (Spring Sale Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 Freiburg i.Br. Öl/Malkarton. Blick hinunter in sommerliches Tal zwischen den Bergen des ... | ||||
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1936 (Winter Sale Bühler, Hans Schwarzwaldmaler Öl/Lw. «Rheinlandschaft bei Istein». Blick von erhöhtem Standpunkt auf ... | starting price: 140,- EUR | |||
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1853 (Autumn Sale Herbertz Schwarzwaldmaler 1. Hälfte Öl/Lw. Mühle im Schwarzwald. U.r. sign. und 1924 dat. ... | ||||
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2007 (Spring Sale Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. Öl/Hartfaser. "Nasser Schnee im Sulzbachtal". Blick über Wasserlauf und Zaun ... | ||||
2117 (Spring Sale Ludwig, R. Schwarzwaldmaler Öl/Holz. Zwei Schwarzwaldlandschaften. Zwei Gutachtälerinnen, mit Jungen vor ... | ||||
2227 (Spring Sale Schwarzwaldmaler Öl/Hartfaser. Verschneite Berglandschaft mit schneebedeckten Tannen im Vordergrund. U.r. ... | ||||
2228 (Spring Sale Schwarzwaldmaler Öl/Lw. Blick über Schwarzwaldhöhen und auf das im Tal liegende St. Blasien. U.r. unleserlich ... | ||||
2229 (Spring Sale Schwarzwaldmaler Mischtechnik. "Blick vom Kaiserberg nach St. Blasien". U.r. monogr. und 1947 dat. sowie u.l. ... | starting price: 100,- EUR | |||
2286 (Spring Sale Wiederroth, H. Schwarzwaldmaler Mitte Öl/Lw. Frühlingshafte Schwarzwaldlandschaft mit strohgedecktem Hof und ... | ||||
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2634 (Autumn Sale Schwarzwaldmaler Öl/Lw. Blick in ein Schwarzwaldtal mit am Bachlauf liegendem Bauernhaus. U.r. undeutlich ... | ||||
2635 (Autumn Sale Schwarzwaldmaler Öl/Lw. Verschneite Winterlandschaft mit zwei Schwarzwaldhöfen bei Hinterzarten. Unsign. ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | |||
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