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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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Falk, Hans
1918 Zürich - 2002 ebd.
«Container». Six lithographs in colours on BFK Rives wove paper, reworked by hand with gouache and partially with collage, each mounted into a passepartout, including a front page with an introduction by Uli Däster. Each signed lower right and differently numbered lower left «V/X», «V/XII» and «Epreuve d'Artiste V/X». One sheet additionally inscribed «einziger Zustand», indistinctly numbered and dedicated on the front page. Passepartouts with slight stains, the portfolio is missing. Unframed.
Artist's proof and unique piece from a series of differently overworked and therefore singular artworks by the artist. Published as a portfolio in an edition of 38 examples and twelve artist's prints on the occasion of a solo exhibition in 1982 at Edition Jamileh Weber Gallery in Zurich. Printed by Walo Steiner, Zurich, and Lichtdruck A.G., Düsseldorf.
1918 Zürich - 2002 ebd.
«Container». Sechs von Hand mit Gouache überarbeitete und teilweise collagierte Farblithographien auf Velin von BFK Rives, jeweils fest in Passepartouts montiert, sowie ein Deckblatt mit einer Einleitung von Uli Däster. Jeweils u.r. sign. und u.l. unterschiedlich «V/X», «V/XII» und «Epreuve d'Artiste V/X» num. Ein Blatt zusätzlich bez. «einziger Zustand», auf dem Deckblatt unleserlich num. und gewidmet. Passepartouts leicht fleckig, die Mappe fehlt.
Künstlerexemplar und Unikat aus einer Serie jeweils unterschiedlich von Hand überarbeiteter und darum trotz der Auflage singulärer Werke des Künstlers. Herausgegeben als Mappenwerk in einer Auflage von 38 Exemplaren zuzüglich zwölf Künstlerexemplaren anlässlich einer Einzelausstellung 1982 von der Edition Jamileh Weber Galerie in Zürich. Gedruckt von Walo Steiner, Zürich, und Lichtdruck A.G., Düsseldorf.