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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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Zush, Alberto Porta
Geb. 1946 Barcelona, lebt und arbeitet in Barcelona.
«Bird of Africa». Collage of oil colour, India ink, pencil, coloured chalk and paper elements on strong watercolour paper. Verso signed lower right, dated (19)77, stamped «Zush» and indistinctly inscribed. Verso lower left a stamp of Galería Vandrés, Madrid, with the handwritten work's data, beside the work number «2328». Verso traces of mounting. Unframed.
The artist, born 1946 as Alberto Porta, adopted the name Zush in 1968, when he decided to create a parallel world called Evrugo Mental State, for which he invented a new currency, a flag, an alphabet (called asura), a passport and even a system of diplomatic relations. In 2001 he adopted a new name, Evru, and attempts to show the global creation of a physical environment and its transformation into art works. His works are present in a number of public and private collections.
Provenance: studio of the artist; purchased in 1978 at Galería Vandrés, Madrid; since then private collection Frankfurt a.M.
Geb. 1946 Barcelona, lebt und arbeitet in Barcelona.
«Bird of Africa». Collage aus Ölfarbe, Tusche, Bleistift, Farbkreide und Papierelementen auf festem Aquarellpapier. Verso u.r. sign., (19)77 dat., gestempelt «Zush» und undeutlich bez. Verso u.l. ein Stempel der Galería Vandrés, Madrid, mit den handschriftlichen Angaben zum Werk, daneben die Werknr. «2328». Verso Montierungsreste.
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Der Künstler, geboren 1946 als Alberto Porta, nahm 1968 den Namen Zush an und kreierte etwa zeitgleich eine parallele Welt namens Evrugo Mental State, für welche er eine eigene Währung, eine Flagge, ein eigenes Alphabet (genannt asura), einen Pass und sogar diplomatische Strukturen in Form von fiktiven Botschaftern entwarf. Seit dem Jahr 2001 nennt er sich Evru und versucht, eine allgemeingültige globale physische Umwelt zu schaffen und diese in Kunstwerke zu transformieren. Seine Werke befinden sich in zahlreichen öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen.
Provenienz: Atelier des Künstlers; erworben 1978 in der Galería Vandrés, Madrid; seitdem Privatsammlung Frankfurt a.M.