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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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Mitoraj, Igor
1944 Oederan - 2014 Paris.
«Per Adriano».
Light brown patinated bronze, on travertine base. Signed lower right and dated (19)92. Numbered 61/99 on the side. Under the base a printed label of DIE GALERIE, Frankfurt a.M., with the handwritten work's data. Patina.
H (including base)
Igor Mitoraj draws on the artistic tradition of the classical beauty of antiquity and builds a bridge to the present in his sculptural work. Mitoraj's gods, heroes and figures from ancient mythology are always fragmentary. The torsos and head fragments are often injured, damaged, sometimes even bandaged. They retain the lost splendour of past times and yet they appear sublime and timeless. In their wounded beauty they remind us of the transience and fragility of man.
Certificate: Peter Femfert, DIE GALERIE, Frankfurt a.M., 28.09.2020.
We would like to thank Mr Peter Femfert, DIE GALERIE, Frankfurt a.M., for the kind remarks via
Provenance: purchased at DIE GALERIE, Frankfurt a.M., in the presence of the artist, in the 1990s; since then private collection Klaus Hug, 
Mitoraj, Igor
1944 Oederan - 2014 Paris.
«Per Adriano».
Bronze, hellbraun patiniert, auf Travertinsockel. U.r. sign. und (19)92 dat. Seitlich 61/99 num. Unter dem Sockel ein gedrucktes Etikett von DIE GALERIE, Frankfurt a.M., mit den handschriftlichen Angaben zum Werk. Alterspatina.
H. (mit Sockel)
Igor Mitoraj schöpft aus der künstlerischen Tradition der klassischen Schönheit der Antike und schlägt in seinem bildhauerischen Werk eine Brücke zur Gegenwart. Mitorajs Götter, Helden und Figuren der antiken Mythologie zeigen sich stets fragmentarisch. Die Torsi und Kopffragmente sind oft verletzt, beschädigt, teils sogar bandagiert. Es haftet ihnen der verlorene Glanz vergangener Zeiten an und dennoch wirken sie erhaben und zeitlos. In ihrer verletzten Schönheit mahnen sie die Vergänglichkeit und Zerbrechlichkeit des Menschen an.
Zertifikat: Peter Femfert, DIE GALERIE, Frankfurt a.M., 28.09.2020.
Wir danken Herrn Peter Femfert, DIE GALERIE, Frankfurt a.M., für die freundlichen Hinweise via
Provenienz: erworben in den 1990er Jahren bei DIE GALERIE, Frankfurt a.M., in Anwesenheit des Künstlers; seitdem Privatsammlung Klaus Hug,