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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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Wit, Jakob de
1695 Amsterdam - 1754 ebd.
Two grisaille paintings with allegorical putto depictions. Oil on canvas, relined. Unsigned. Restored. Unframed.
Already during his lifetime Jakob de Wit was first of all famous for his trompe-l'oeil-decoration paintings and highly esteemed even far beyond the borders of the Dutch provinces. He achieved the highest artistic skills in the depiction of mostly allegorical motifs, frequently sceneries populated with putti, he executed in oil on canvas. Thereby he knew how to imitate stone reliefs masterly and in a deceptively realistic way just by using extremely fine colour gradations of grey, and let them appear to the observer like fully sculptural figures. Originally these paintings were partial component of wall decorations and frequently integrated into wooden wall panellings as supraporte.
Provenance: Gallery Dr. Schenk, Zurich; private collection Germany; Koller auctions, Zurich, 18.03.1999, lot 98; private collection France.
1695 Amsterdam - 1754 ebd.
Zwei Grisaillen mit Darstellungen von Putti. Öl auf Leinwand, doubliert. Unsign. Altrest.
Jakob de Wit war bereits zu Lebzeiten vor allem für seine Trompe-l'oeil-Dekorationsmalereien bekannt und bis weit über die Grenzen der Niederlande hinaus hoch geschätzt. Dabei erreichte er höchste künstlerische Fertigkeiten in der Darstellung meist allegorischer Motive, häufig mit Putti bevölkerte Szenerien, die er in Öl auf Leinwand ausführte. Dabei verstand er es, in feinsten Grauabstufungen meisterlich und täuschend realistisch Steinreliefs zu imitieren, die dem Betrachter wie vollplastische Stuckaturen erschienen. Ursprünglich waren diese Gemälde Bestandteil der Wanddekoration und häufig als Supraporten in Vertäfelungen integriert.
Provenienz: Galerie Dr. Schenk, Zürich; Privatsammlung Deutschland; Koller Auktionen, Zürich, 18.03.1999, Los 98; Privatsammlung Frankreich.