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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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Bury, Pol
1922 Haine-Saint-Pierre - 2005 Paris.
«Guitare». Wood, wire, magnetic tape and electric motor. Verso on label dated 1968 and with inscription «Sergio Tosi edizioni numerate» as well as hand written numbered 31/40 and signed. Working order. Provenance: Artax Düsseldorf; since 2004 in private collection. Literature: Eugene Ionesco, Andre Balthazar, Pol Bury, Brüssel 1976, p. 260. Catalogue raisonné: Pahlke 64 - 37 b. 
1922 Haine-Saint-Pierre - 2005 Paris.
«Guitare». Holz, Draht, Magnet und Elektromotor. Längliches Holzobjekt mit in einer gekerbten Nische gespannten Gitarrensaiten und beweglichen, von einem Motor angetriebenen Holzstiften. Verso auf Etikett 1968 dat. und bez. «Sergio Tosi edizioni numerate» sowie handschriftlich 31/40 num. und sign. Funktionstüchtig. H. 91, B. 20, T. 22 cm.
Nach der Beteiligung an der Gruppe COBRA (1949 - 51) sowie der Mitbegründung der Gruppe «Art Abstrait» wendet sich der belgische Künstler Bury 1953 von der Malerei ab und entwickelt sich zu einem der profiliertesten Vertreter der kinetischen Kunst, orientiert an Alexander Calder. Sein Beitrag zur Kinetik besteht in der konsequenten Entfaltung dieses Themas. Burys Weg führt zunächst zu sich traditionell im Bildrahmen entfaltenden bewegten Arbeiten. Das Interesse an der den Elementen innewohnenden kinetischen Energie und Kräften lässt dann Monumentalplastiken (25 Tonnes de colonnes, 1973) und Brunnen (seit 1976) entstehen. Bury bevorzugt hier Grundformen wie Kugel, Zylinder, Würfel und Quader. Hohe handwerkliche Durchbildung und eine materialgerechte Formgebung zeichnen die Arbeiten aus.
Das Objekt «Guitare» existiert in einer 310 x 150 cm großen Variante von 1964 sowie in der vorliegenden Auflage von 40 Stück, herausgegeben von Sergio Tosi, Mailand. Über diese Auflage sagte Bury: «Ce n'est pas un hasard si dans mon atelier nous réalisons, mon assistant et moi, une 'guitare électrique' de 3 mètres 10 de haut, de 1 mètre 50 de large. Cette guitare fut réalisée il y a dix ans pour une exposition dont le thème était, je crois: 'cadeaux de Noel'. Elle amusa quelques-uns. Tosi me demanda d'en faire un multiple, ce qu'il vendit petit à petit en 45 exemplaires. D'en faire un objet imposant répond à un sentiment de vengeance: c'est l'éléphant qui revient dans le magasin de porcelaine parce qu'on en a chassé le pékinois».
Provenienz: Artax Düsseldorf; seit 2004 in Privatsammlung.
Literatur: Eugene Ionesco, Andre Balthazar, Pol Bury, Brüssel 1976, S. 260.
Werkverzeichnis: Pahlke 64 - 37 b.