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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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Weber, Hermann
Born 1959 Biberach.
«Verschleiert XVI (Veiled XVI)». Collage on cardboard. Verso titled, monogrammed and dated 2010 in pencil. Verso on the frame titled, signed and artist's stamp. Passepartout. Provenance: purchased directly from the artist; since then in private collection. Literature: Hermann Weber, regardez - Dix ans Hermann Weber, Galerie GNG Gilles Naudin Paris, Kehrer, Heidelberg und Berlin 2010. Il. p. 199.
Geb. 1959 Biberach.
«Verschleiert XVI». Collage/Karton. Auf einem Treppenpodest ein kauernder männlicher Akt vor einem vollständig verschleierten Wesen, darüber ein Bambusstab schwebend. Verso mit Bleistift bet., monogr. und 2010 dat. Verso auf Rahmen bet. und sign. sowie Künstlerstempel. H. 28, B. 38,5 cm. Passepartout.
Der aufstrebende Künstler Hermann Weber setzt sich in einer ganzen Reihe von Werken mit dem Thema Verschleierung und der kulturellen und religiösen Bedeutung des Schleiers auseinander und stellt dabei gerne provokativ verschleierte weibliche Figuren nackten männlichen Körpern gegenüber. Weber knüpft mit seinen Werken an die aktuelle Schleier-Debatte an, die den Eindruck erweckt, die Verschleierung der Frau sei eine rein islamische Angelegenheit und habe mit der westlichen Kultur kaum etwas zu tun und somit die weitaus ältere Tradition des Schleiers im Christentum außer Acht lässt. Im Christentum diente der Schleier nicht nur als Schutz der Frau vor unzüchtigen Blicken, sondern erlegte gleichzeitig auch der Frau ein Verbot für den «aktiven Blick» auf den männlichen Körper auf.
Provenienz: direkt vom Künstler erworben; seitdem in Privatsammlung.
Literatur: Hermann Weber, regardez - Dix ans Hermann Weber, Galerie GNG Gilles Naudin Paris, Kehrer, Heidelberg und Berlin 2010. Abb. S. 199.