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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Image under artist's copyright. | 2412 (Spring Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. «Parzifal». Auf einem Schimmel sitzender Reiter. Im Hintergrund rechts ein ... | starting price: 100,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2413 (Spring Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. «Sonntagmorgen (Gitarrespieler am Morgen)». Rückenfigur auf Feldweg vor ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2414 (Spring Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. «Der Erzähler». Im Schein des Mondes gestikulierender Erzähler mit ... | starting price: 100,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2415 (Spring Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. «Herzbruderschaft». Aus einer Blumenzwiebel erwachsende Groteske mit auf ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2416 (Spring Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. «Selbstbildnis IV». Brustporträt mit langem weißem Bart und Mantel. In der ... | starting price: 100,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2417 (Spring Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. «Symbol II (Leben im Stein)». Im Zentrum eines geschliffenen Steins ein ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2418 (Spring Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. «Mondaufgang». Unter einem Vordach auf der Veranda sitzende Kinder. In der ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2419 (Spring Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. «Amor auf 1 Delphin (Lebensfahrt I)». Auf einem dunklen Delfin durch ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2420 (Spring Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Neun Farblithographien. Schwarzwälder Landschaftsansichten, darunter Bernau, das ... | |||
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0434 (Winter Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Grünes, transparentes Glas, bemalt, und Blei. Rechteckige Platte. In der Darstellung ... | ||||
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2208 (Winter Sale Thoma, Hans wohl 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Paar Kohlezeichnungen. In annähernd kubistischer Manier gefertigte Dorfansichten. ... | starting price: 200,- EUR | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2511 (Winter Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Farblithographie. Drei Kinder auf der Sommerwiese. Zwei Mädchen und ein Junge, auf ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2512 (Winter Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Farblithographie. Im Happacher Tal. Bauernhaus neben Weg und Gebirgsbächlein. Im ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2513 (Winter Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. Unter von Cumulus-Wolken bedecktem Himmel weites Feld mit Figurenstaffage. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2514 (Winter Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. Der Tod. In der Gestalt des Skeletts mit Sense, einen alten Mann an seiner ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2515 (Winter Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. Sechs über einem Nadelwäldchen fliegende Kraniche, im Hintergrund bergige ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2516 (Winter Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. Selbstporträt des Künstlers im Anzug mit Fliege vor bewaldeter Landschaft. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2517 (Winter Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. Selbstporträt des 80-jährigen Künstlers. In der Platte u.l. monogr., 1919 ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2518 (Winter Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Lichtdruck. Blick von erhöhtem Standpunkt auf eine weite Tallandschaft, im ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | ||
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2078 (Autumn Sale Thoma, Hans wohl 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Öl/Malkarton, aufgelegt. In weitem Tal blühende Sommerwiese mit von Buschwerk ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2396 (Autumn Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. «Beginnender Regen». Weite Schwarzwaldlandschaft, links im Vordergrund ein ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2397 (Autumn Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Farblithographie. Kopf eines bärtigen Alten, umspielt von vier Putti mit Blumen, ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2486 (Spring Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. "Vierhändig". Auf einem Brett sitzender Affe, seine rechte Hand ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2487 (Spring Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. "Das Glück". Auf einer über der Wiese schwebenden Kugel sitzender ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2488 (Spring Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Farblithographie. "Abend". Am Wasser sitzender Greis, junger Flötenspieler und ... | starting price: 180,- EUR | ||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2965 (Autumn Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Lithographie. Einladungskarte des Ehepaares Thoma für das Ehepaar Paul von ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2966 (Autumn Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. Mitgliedskarte des Karlsruher Radiervereins. Im Gras sitzender, ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2967 (Autumn Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Lithographie. In ovaler Rahmung aus den Lüften ins Meer stürzender Ikarus, darüber ... | starting price: 80,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2968 (Autumn Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. "Frauenbildnis mit Nelke (Marie)". Kopfporträt einer jungen Frau in ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2969 (Autumn Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. "In der Baumkrone". Zwei im Baum sitzende Jungen, im Hintergrund ... |
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