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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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Todeschi, Pietro und Sabatini, Francesco
Pietro Todeschi, Italian vedutist circa 1669, (after Willem Jansozoon Blaeu, Nicolas van Geelkercken and Petrus Plancius). One of the most beautiful, most curious and rarest maps of the world, a pirate copy of a non existing original: Orbis Terrarum Tipus De Integro Multis In Locis Emendatus. Coloured engraving. Monogrammed with Willem Janszoon Blaeu, Amsterdam, 1669. This map is an extrem rare unrecorded pirate copy of Willem Blaeu's map of the world, based on the maps of Nicolas van Geelkercken and Petrus Plancius. It's inscribed with G. Ianssonio, was printed by Pietro Todeschi and published by Sabatini. The experts from the Franco Novacco Map collection in the Newberry Library: «Despite its Amsterdam imprint, this map is suspected to be of Italian origin, possibly published by Pietro Todeschi in Bologna, and bearing a date apparently altered by hand». This copy is dated with 1630. There are only three further copies od this map known worldwide: 1. Newberry Library, Chicago, part of the Franco Novacco Map collection. 2. A Private Foundation (formerly Stopp Collection). 3. Altea Gallery, London; Catalogue Miami International Map Fair, 2000, The price in this catalogue: 97.956 €. Good restored condition, laid on japon paper, closed tears and centerfold, partially trimmed. 
Italienische Vedutenstecher um 1669.
Eine der schönsten, kuriosesten und seltensten Weltkarten, die Raubkopie einer in dieser Form nicht existierenden Originalkarte: Orbis Terrarum Tipus De Integro Multis In Locis Emendatus. Kolorierter Kupferstich. Detailreiche Weltkarte mit den zwei Hemisphären und zwei bzw. einer figürlichen Kartusche. Mittig, ober- und unterhalb der Hemisphären jeweils zwei der vier Elemente. Darstellung gerahmt von einer fein kolorierten Bildbordüre mit Kleinansichten diverser Städte sowie von begüterten Einwohnern verschiedener Länder. Monogrammiert und datiert mit Willem Janszoon Blaeu, Amsterdam, 1669. Guter, rest. Zustand, auf Japanpapier aufgelegt, geschlossene Risse bzw. Mittelfalz, teilweise beschn. H. 43,5, B. 73,8 cm (Darstellung), H. 47,8, B. 77 cm (Blattgröße). Ungerahmt.
Diese Karte wurde kopiert nach einer angeblichen, nie erschienenen Vorlage von Willem Blaeu und basiert auf den Weltkarten von Nicolas van Geelkercken und Petrus Plancius. Sie ist bezeichnet mit G. Ianssonio, wurde gestochen von Pietro Todeschi und ist erschienen bei Sabatini in Bologna.
Die Karte belegt den harten Konkurrenzkampf der kartographischen Verlage im 17. Jahrhundert und ist ein Zeugnis der strukturellen Verquickungen der Verlage im damaligen Europa. Bei vorliegender Karte handelt es sich wohl um das Exemplar der Raubkopie von Francesco Sabatini, von der Shirley berichtet.
Die Experten der Newberry Library Chicago äußern sich hierzu wie folgt: "Despite its Amsterdam imprint, this map is suspected to be of Italian origin, possibly published by Pietro Todeschi in Bologna, and bearing a date apparently altered by hand." Das dort vorhandene Exemplar ist mit Hand auf 1630 datiert.
Es sind nur drei weitere Exemplare weltweit mit abweichenden Datierungen nachweisbar.
1. Newberry Library, Chicago, ehemals Kartensammlung Franco Novacco.
2. Sammlung einer privaten amerikanischen Foundation (vorher Sammlung Stopp).
3. Altea Gallery, London; Katalog der Miami International Map Fair, 2000, Preis: 97.956 €
Literatur: Shirley, The mapping of the world, Nr. 333, Abb. 253; Klaus Stopp, «Drei Karten von Francesco Sabatini»; Mappae Antiquae Liber Amicorum; Günter Schilder, S. 281-285.