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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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Wesselmann, Tom
1931 Cincinnati - 2004 New York.
«Monica Nude with yellow curtain».
1991. Aquatint from three plates in nine colours on strong wove paper. Signed lower right and numbered 5/50.
H 15,9,
H 38,2,
Work from an edition of 50 signed and numbered copies. Published by International Images, Putney, Vermont. Printed by Mohammad Khalil of MOK Editions, at Branstead Studio, New York.
With his shrill, erotic nudes, Tom Wesselmann was among the provocateurs of the American art scene in the 1960s. In typical Pop Art manner, he reduced his motifs to their essential features in a two-dimensional eye-catching way, thus underlining the status of nudity and not the individuality of the face. Wesselmann combines the classic, sensual nude type of the siren-like odalisque with the replaceability of the modern advertising industry and the bourgeois cosiness of the average American household.
We would like to thank Mr Brian Kenny, Tom Wesselmann Estate, New York, for the kind remarks via
Provenance: purchased at the Galerie Pro Arte, Freiburg i.Br.; since then private collection Klaus Hug, 
Wesselmann, Tom
1931 Cincinnati - 2004 New York.
«Monica Nude with Yellow Curtain».
1991. Aquatinta von drei Platten in neun Farben auf festem Velin. U.r. sign. und 5/50 num.
H. 15,9,
H. 38,2,
Werk aus einer Auflage von 50 signierten und nummerierten Exemplaren. Herausgegeben von International Images, Putney, Vermont. Gedruckt von Mohammad Khalil, MOK Editions, bei Branstead Studio, New York.
Mit seinen schrillen, erotischen Akten zählte Tom Wesselmann in den 1960er Jahren zu den Provokateuren der amerikanischen Kunstszene. In typischer Pop-Art Manier reduziert er seine Motive in flächiger, plakativer Form auf ihre wesentlichen Merkmale und rückt damit den Status der Nacktheit vor die Gesichterindividualität. Wesselmann kombiniert den klassischen, sinnlichen Akttypus der sirenenhaften Odaliske mit der Austauschbarkeit der modernen Werbeindustrie und der spießigen Gemütlichkeit des durchschnittlichen amerikanischen Haushalts.
Wir danken Herrn Brian Kenny, Tom Wesselmann Estate, New York, für die freundlichen Hinweise via
Provenienz: erworben in der Galerie Pro Arte, Freiburg i.Br.; seitdem Privatsammlung Klaus Hug,