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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Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3461 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Vast Black Forest landscape. Pencil on greyish wove paper, with ... | ||||
3462 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest farms near St. Märgen. Pencil on strong wove paper. ... | ||||
3463 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «St. Märgen». Pencil on wove paper. Monogrammed lower left, dated ... | ||||
3464 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «St. Märgen». Pencil on brownish wove paper. Monogrammed lower ... | ||||
Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
2093 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Im Simonswäldertal». Oil on panel. Signed lower left. Verso ... | ||||
2094 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Snow-covered Black Forest house early in the morning. Oil on ... | ||||
2095 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest houses in a sunny winter landscape with brook. Oil on ... | ||||
2096 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 View over snow-covered Black Forest valley. Oil on canvas. Signed ... | ||||
2097 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Wintertag in Ettersbach. Schwarzwald (winter's day at ... | ||||
2098 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Farm houses at Kinzigtal valley in the evening. Oil on canvas. ... | ||||
2099 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Im kleinen Wiesental (at the small Wiesental valley)». Oil on ... | ||||
2100 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Snow-covered Black Forest houses in the morning sun. Signed lower ... | ||||
2101 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest house in a summer landscape with impressive cloud ... | ||||
2102 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Farm house with stony path. Watercolour and gouache over pencil on ... | ||||
2103 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest mill near St. Märgen. Watercolour and gouache over ... | ||||
2104 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Autumn in the Black Forest. Pencil and coloured pencil on wove ... | ||||
2105 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «St. Märgen Holzschlag Büblismühle». Pencil and coloured pencil on ... | ||||
2106 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Fallerhof St. Märgen». Pencil and coloured pencil on wove paper. ... | ||||
2107 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «St. Märgen». Pencil and coloured pencil on wove paper. ... | ||||
2108 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest house with outbuilding. Pencil and coloured pencil on ... | starting price: 1100,- EUR | |||
2109 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Huts at the creek. Pencil and coloured pencil on wove paper. ... | ||||
2110 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest houses in a spring landscape. Pencil and coloured ... | ||||
2111 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest house with cherry trees. Pencil on ribbed wove paper, ... | ||||
2112 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «St. Märgen». Pencil and coloured pencil on brownish wove paper. ... | ||||
2113 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «St. Märgen». Pencil on brownish wove paper. Monogrammed lower ... | ||||
2114 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest house with vegetable garden. Pencil on brownish wove ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3247 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 View from Feldberg to Schauinsland. Oil on canvas. Signed lower ... | ||||
3248 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Sunny winter's day in the deeply snow-covered Black Forest. Oil ... | ||||
3249 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest house in an evening setting winter landscape. Oil on ... | ||||
3250 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Alte Mühle im Schnee im Schwarzwald (old mill in the snow at the ... |
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