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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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Herbstauktionen 25.–26.09.2015
Buren, Daniel
Geb. 1938 Boulogne-Billancourt, lebt und arbeitet in Paris.
«Parcours». 22 works in different techniques (including felt-tip pen with gouache and coloured chalk on transparent paper, pencil drawings, partially coloured with gouache and coloured chalk on transparent paper, ball pen and coloured pencil drawings, partially coloured, felt-tip pen drawings on machine paper, as well as black-and-white and colour copies on machine paper, manually overworked with gouache and coloured chalk).Unsigned. Partially differently inscribed, all sheets numbered consecutively 1 - 22. Enclosed a colour photograph of the artist in the historic riding hall of castle Ebnet, on Kodak photo paper, as well as twelve calendar-postcards with images of the event respectively the exhibition and an accompanying foreword by Dr. Eva-Maria Schumann-Bacia, curator of the exhibition, in the original cardboard box.
The historic riding hall of the Baroque castle Ebnet, beautifully located within a 19th century park just before the gates of Freiburg, provided the backdrop for this project of the French concept artist Daniel Buren in autumn 1994. Following the invitation of Kunstverein Freiburg, Buren transformed the riding hall into a site-specific installation and used details of some cavalry battles by Paolo Ucello (1397 - 1475) as inspiration and direct model for his drawings. A parallel organised autumn drag hunt has been integrated into the exhibition concept.
Authentication: 22 colour photographs of the drawings, each verso signed by the artist, dated «Sept. (19)94» and numbered «No. 1 - No. 22», as well as a personal letter by the artist, also signed and dated 1996.
Provenance: South German noble house.

deutsch Geb. 1938 Boulogne-Billancourt, lebt und arbeitet in Paris.
«Parcours». 22 Arbeiten in unterschiedlichen Techniken (darunter Filzstift mit Gouache und Farbkreide auf Transparentpapier, Bleistiftzeichnungen, teilweise koloriert mit Gouache und Farbkreide auf Transparentpapier, Kugelschreiber- und Buntstiftzeichnungen, teilweise koloriert, Filzstiftzeichnungen auf Maschinenpapier sowie händisch mit Gouache und Farbkreide überarbeitete Schwarz-Weiß- und Farbkopien auf Maschinenpapier). Unsign. Teilweise verschieden bez., alle Blätter fortlaufend 1 - 22 num. Anbei eine Farbphotographie des Künstlers in der Historischen Reithalle von Schloss Ebnet, auf Kodak-Photopapier, sowie zwölf Kalender-Postkarten mit Aufnahmen der Veranstaltung bzw. Ausstellung und einem begleitenden Vorwort von Dr. Eva-Maria Schumann-Bacia, Kuratorin der Ausstellung, in der originalen Pappschachtel.
H. 21 bis 33, B. 20,5 bis 35,5 cm (Blattgrößen).
Die Historische Reithalle des Barockschlosses Ebnet, welches umgeben von einem im 19. Jahrhundert angelegten Park malerisch vor den Toren Freiburgs liegt, bildete im Herbst 1994 die Kulisse für ein Projekt des französischen Konzeptkünstlers Daniel Buren. Einer Einladung des Kunstvereins Freiburg folgend verwandelte Buren die Reithalle in eine raumbezogene Installation, wobei als Inspirationsquelle und direkte Vorlage seiner Zeichnungen die Bilder der Reiterschlachten Paolo Ucellos (1397 - 1475) dienten. Eine parallel zur Ausstellungseröffnung veranstaltete herbstliche Schleppjagd wurde in Burens Ausstellungskonzept integriert.
Echtheitsbestätigung: 22 verso vom Künstler signierte Farbphotographien der Zeichnungen, jeweils «Sept. (19)94» dat. und «No. 1 - No. 22» num., sowie ein persönliches Schreiben des Künstlers, ebenfalls sign. und 1996 dat.
Provenienz: Süddeutsches Adelshaus.
 

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