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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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Zampighi, Eduardo Eugenio
1859 Modena - 1944 Maranello.
Peasent meal with the chicks.
Watercolour on cardboard. Signed lower left.
H 55,8,
Born in Modena during the turbulent epoch of the Risorgimento, the Italian unification movement characterised by cultural self-confidence, the talented Eduardo Eugenio Zampighi moved to Florence, which at the time was a reservoir for young, ambitious artists, after studying at the academy of his home town and an intermezzo in the time-honoured art metropolis of Rome. It were above all the so-called «Macchiaioli», literally painters of spots, with their novel style of painting close to the French realism, which aroused his interest and inspired him to discover the everyday life and work of ordinary people as a motif. The intention behind these detailed, occasionally humorous genre scenes was, for Zampighi as for his role models, to make visible the abstract concept of "italianità", the characteristic essence of the Italian temper.
Provenance: private possession Pforzheim. 
Zampighi, Eduardo Eugenio
1859 Modena - 1944 Maranello.
Bäuerliches Mahl mit den Küken.
Aquarell auf Malkarton. U.l. sign.
H. 55,8,
Geboren in Modena während der turbulenten Epoche des Risorgimento, der von kulturellem Selbstbewusstsein geprägten italienischen Einheitsbewegung, zog es den begabten Eduardo Eugenio Zampighi nach dem Studium an der Akademie seiner Heimatstadt und einem Intermezzo in der altehrwürdigen Kunstmetropole Rom nach Florenz, das zu jener Zeit ein Sammelbecken für junge, ambitionierte Künstler war. Vor allem die sogenannten «Macchiaioli», wörtlich Kleckser, mit ihrer neuartigen, am französischen Realismus geschulten Malweise, erregten sein Interesse und bewegten ihn, das alltägliche Leben und Arbeiten der einfachen Menschen für sich als Motiv zu entdecken. Die Intention dieser detailreichen, gelegentlich humorvollen Genreszenen war bei Zampighi, wie bei seinen Vorbildern, den abstrakten Begriff der «italianità», die charakteristische Essenz der italienischen Wesensart, sichtbar zu machen.
Provenienz: Privatbesitz Pforzheim.