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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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Knaus, Ludwig
1829 Wiesbaden - 1910 Berlin.
«Der Taschendieb auf dem Jahrmarkt (the pickpocket at the fair)». Circa 1852. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. Verso auction notes. Restored at the lower margin.
Ludwig Knaus was the most successful painter of the 19th century in Wiesbaden and was particularly appreciated as genre and portrait painter. Together with Anselm Feuerbach he was student of Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Wilhelm von Schadow and developed his own characteristic style quite early. In contrast to his teachers, Knaus preferred subjects of genre painting instead of historical, religious and mythological motifs. Together with the brothers Andreas and Oswald Achenbach, Joseph Fay, Benjamin Vautier and others he founded the artist's association Malkasten, after leaving the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and made his living as sought-after portraitist. His works were also very demanded in Paris, which was target of his journeys several times, and where he was in close contact with Franz Xaver Winterhalter and Anselm Feuerbach. One of the highlights of his career was his participation in the world exhibition in Paris in 1855, for which he created several works. In 1858 he took over Franz Xaver Winterhalter's studio in Paris, in 1874 he was appointed as Royal Prussian Professor at the Akademie der schönen Künste in Berlin.
Provenance: private possession Freiburg merchant family.

deutsch 1829 Wiesbaden - 1910 Berlin.
«Der Taschendieb auf dem Jahrmarkt». Um 1852. Öl auf Leinwand. U.l. sign. Verso Auktionsvermerke. Unterer Rand rest.
H. 115,5, B. 161 cm.
Ludwig Knaus war der erfolgreichste Wiesbadener Maler des 19. Jahrhunderts und besonders geschätzt als Porträtist und Genremaler. Gemeinsam mit Anselm Feuerbach lernte er als Schüler bei Karl Ferdinand Sohn und Wilhelm von Schadow, fand aber bereits sehr früh zu seinem eigenen Stil. Im Gegensatz zu seinen Lehrern, die mehr historische, religiöse und mythologische Themen pflegten, fand Knaus sein Sujet häufiger in der Genremalerei. Gemeinsam mit den Brüdern Andreas und Oswald Achenbach, Joseph Fay, Benjamin Vautier und anderen gründete er nach dem Verlassen der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf den Malkasten und verdiente sich fortan seinen Lebensunterhalt als gefragter Porträtist. Beliebt waren seine Werke auch in Paris, wohin er wiederholt zahlreiche Reisen unternahm und wo er regen Kontakt zu Franz Xaver Winterhalter und Anselm Feuerbach pflegte. Einer der Höhepunkte seiner künstlerischen Karriere war die Teilnahme an der dortigen Weltausstellung 1855, für die er gleich mehrere Gemälde anfertigte. 1858 übernahm er das Atelier von Franz Xaver Winterhalter in Paris, 1874 wurde er zum Königlich Preußischen Professor der Akademie der schönen Künste in Berlin berufen.
Provenienz: Privatbesitz Freiburger Kaufmannsfamilie.

hammer price: 28000,- EUR
(starting price: 15000,- EUR)