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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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Roeder, Emy
1890 Würzburg - 1971 Mainz.
«Rückblickende Sitzende (sitting nude looking behind)». Circa 1933. Bronze. Monogrammed to base. With a handwritten letter of thanks from the artist «Mainz 6.Dezember 60 Sehr verehrter lb. Herr Prof. Schega, diese kl. Plastik möchte Sie in Crefeld erinnern an Ihre Ihnen immer dankbare Emy Roeder». Authentication: We would like to thank Dr. Henrike Holsing, Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg, for the scientific advice via 
1890 Würzburg - 1971 Mainz.
«Rückblickende Sitzende». Um 1933. Bronze. Eine sitzende Nackte mit übereinandergeschlagenen Beinen, sich auf ihrem linken Arm abstützend und den Kopf verstohlen über ihre rechte Schulter drehend. Im Sockel monogr. Mit handschriftlich verfasstem Dankesbrief bez. «Mainz 6.Dezember 60 Sehr verehrter lb. Herr Prof. Schega, diese kl. Plastik möchte Sie in Crefeld erinnern an Ihre Ihnen immer dankbare Emy Roeder».
Anhand mehrerer Vorzeichnungen sowie aufgrund der weichen Form der verarbeiteten Figur wird die Rückblickende in die Schaffensphase um 1933 eingestuft. Im Antlitz der Figur lassen sich Parallelen zu den Figuren der «Pariserinnen» erkennen. Emy Roeder beginnt 1912 ihre künstlerische Ausbildung bei Bernhard Hoetger in Darmstadt. 1915 geht die Künstlerin nach Studienabschluss nach Berlin, wo sie sich der Vereinigung der Radikalen Bildenden Künstler anschließt. Roeder zählt in Berlin zu den erfolgreichsten Bildhauern und ist in Gruppenausstellungen mit Kollwitz, Barlach und Schmidt-Rottluff vertreten. Im Jahre 1933 emigriert Roeder nach dem Ausstellungsverbot der NSDAP nach Italien, wo sie
Authentifizierung: Wir danken Frau Dr. Henrike Holsing, Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg, für die wissenschaftliche Beratung via
Provenienz: Möller-Garny, Köln; Prof. Dr. Schega, Krefeld; Prof. Dr. Volbach, Mainz; Prof. Dr. Heydenreich, München; später Privatbesitz Süddeutschland.
Ausstellung: Speyer, Pfälzische Sezession, 1949,
Werkverzeichnis: Gerke 35.