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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Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2080 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Berges, Werner 1941 Cloppenburg - 2017 Schallstadt. «Diverse (divers things)». Collage from etching in colours, serigraph in ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2189 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Antes, Horst Born 1936 Heppenheim, lives and works in Karlsruhe, Castellina and Berlin. «Ocker Porträt mit weißer Maske (ochre ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2191 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Antes, Horst Born 1936 Heppenheim, lives and works in Karlsruhe, Castellina and Berlin. «Gefleckte Figur mit Reif, kleine Figur ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2217 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Geiger, Rupprecht 1908 Munich - 2009 ibid. «Ohne Titel (untitled)» from «Epitaph Karl Amadeus Hartmann». 1966. Zincography on laid ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2218 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Geiger, Rupprecht 1908 München - 2009 ibid. «blau - rot - schwarz (blue - red - black)». 1958. Lithograph in colours on wove ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2221 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Götz, Karl Otto 1914 Aachen - 2017 Wolfenacker. «Belmy». Lithograph in colours on BFK Rives wove paper (watermark). Signed lower ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2223 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Hartung, Hans 1904 Leipzig - 1989 Antibes. «L 1973-34». 1973. Lithograph in indigo black on BFK Rives wove paper (watermark). ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2235 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Janssen, Horst 1929 Hamburg - 1995 ibid. «Billiard». Lithograph on wove paper. Monogrammed lower right, dated (19)55 and ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2258 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Look, Hans-Günther van 1939 Untitled. Red dog. Lithograph in colours on Arches wove paper ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2286 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Tinguely, Jean 1925 Fribourg - 1991 Bern. Untitled from «Olympic Centennial Suite». 1992. Lithograph in colours on Arches laid ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2298 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Wunderlich, Paul 1927 Eberswalde - 2010 Saint-Pierre-de-Vassols. «Intensivmedizin (intensive care)». Lithograph in seven colours ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2299 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Wunderlich, Paul 1927 Eberswalde - 2010 Saint-Pierre-de-Vassols. «Olympia-Plakat (olympic poster)», also «Süßer Lorbeer (sweet ... | |||
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3025 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Mucha, Alphonse 1860 Ivancice/Moravia - 1939 Prague. «Les Saisons (Hiver, Printemps, Été, Automne)». Seasonal allegories on four ... | ||||
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3179 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Devotional booklet with wallet for alms in original case Paroissien Romain. Edited by Antoine Maitre. Dijon, Eugène Jobard, 1869. With a frontispiece and numerous lithographs ... | ||||
Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2002 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Berges, Werner 1941 Cloppenburg - 2017 Schallstadt. «Diverse (divers things)». Collage from etching in colours, serigraph in ... | starting price: 1800,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2075 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Miró, Joan 1893 Barcelona - 1983 Palma de Mallorca. «Montroig 1». 1974. Lithograph in colours on strong Arches wove paper ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2117 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Wesselmann, Tom 1931 Cincinnati - 2004 New York. «Claire Nude». Serigraph in colours and lithograph in colours on strong wove ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2126 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Chagall, Marc 1889 Witebsk - 1985 Saint-Paul-de-Vence. «Nice, Soleil, Fleurs». The Bay of Angels. 1962. Lithograph in colours ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2131 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Ernst, Max 1891 Brühl/Rhineland - 1976 Paris. «Deux Oiseaux». 1977. Lithograph in colours on wove paper with centre fold, ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2136 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Hartung, Hans 1904 Leipzig - 1989 Antibes. «L 1973-34». 1973. Lithograph in indigo black on BFK Rives wove paper (watermark). ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2145 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Miró, Joan 1893 Barcelona - 1983 Palma de Mallorca. «Cap I Cua». 1979. Lithograph in colours on Arches wove paper ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2156 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Beuys, Joseph 1921 Krefeld - 1986 Düsseldorf. «Meerengel Sperm-Wal (sea angel sperm-whale)» from «Suite Zirkulationszeit (suite ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2162 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Burchard, Hartwig 1920 Berlin - 2014 São Paulo. Untitled. Composition in green, blue and yellow. Lithograph in colours on paper. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2179 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Götz, Karl Otto 1914 Aachen - 2017 Wolfenacker. «ENTYM». Lithograph in colours on laid paper. Signed lower right. Dated 1986 ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2180 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Vienna - 2000 at sea off Australia. «In Gamba». Lithograph in colours and serigraph in colours with metal ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2197 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Ramos, Mel 1935 Sacramento - 2018 Oakland. «Hav-a-Havana -2, Cohiba». Lithograph and serigraph in 26 colours on light ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2210 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Ulke, Katharina Born 1969 Düsseldorf, lives and works in Munich and Diessen at Ammersee. «Flow». Lithograph in colours on BFK ... | |||
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3232 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Adam, Julius II called Cats-Adam 1852 Munich - 1913 ibid. Three kittens in the spring meadows. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Verso on the ... | ||||
3233 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Adam, Julius II called Cats-Adam 1852 Munich - 1913 ibid. Mother cat with her three kittens. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. H 27,5, ... | ||||
3234 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Adam, Julius II called Cats-Adam 1852 Munich - 1913 ibid. Five kittens playing at a wicker basket. Oil on canvas. Signed upper right. Verso on ... |
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