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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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Trevisani, Francesco after
1656 Capodistria - 1746 Rome.
Penitent Magdalene.
Oil on canvas, mounted on panel. Inscribed lower right «F.T.». Verso on the back board on a label inscribed by a different hand with the work's data and information about the restoration of 1963. Surface soiling, retouchings, lower edge extended.
H 100,
The composition of the penitent Magdalene is borrowed from a work by Francesco Trevisani which has been imitated several times. Coming from the eastern Adriatic Sea of the Maritime Republic of Venice, he gained his first experience in the lagoon city as a student of Antonio Zanchi. After he arrived in the Eternal City in 1678, he discovered his formative role models in Roman Baroque painters and found loyal patrons in wealthy cardinals.
Literature: Frank R. DiFederico, Francesco Trevisani, Eighteenth-Century Painter in Rome, A Catalogue Raisonné, Washington D.C. 1977, 
Trevisani, Francesco nach
1656 Capodistria - 1746 Rom.
Büßende Magdalena.
Öl auf Leinwand, auf Holz kaschiert. U.r. bez. «F.T.». Verso auf der Rahmenrückwand auf einem Etikett von fremder Hand bez. mit den Angaben zum Werk und zur Restaurierung von 1963. Oberflächenverschmutzung, Retuschen, unterer Bildrand verlängert.
H.
Die Komposition der büßenden Magdalena ist einem mehrfach nachgeahmten Werk von Francesco Trevisani entlehnt. Vom östlichen Adriaufer der Seerepublik Venedig stammend, sammelte er in der Lagunenstadt seine ersten Erfahrungen als Schüler von Antonio Zanchi. Nachdem er 1678 in der Ewigen Stadt angekommen war, fand er in den römischen Barockmalern seine prägenden Vorbilder und in wohlhabenden Kardinälen treue Mäzene.
Literatur: Frank R. DiFederico, Francesco Trevisani, Eighteenth-Century Painter in Rome, A Catalogue Raisonné, Washington D.C. 1977, Kat.Nr. 39, 40, Tafel 31, 32 (vgl.).