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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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Hahn, Friedemann
Geb. 1949 Singen.
«Maler mit Kerzenhut». Öl/Lw. Stark abstrahierte Darstellung eines bärtigen Mannes, einen mit weißen angezündeten Kerzen besetzten Hut tragend. Verso sign. und (19)86 dat.
Welchen Maler könnte Hahn gemeint haben? In der Sammlung des Museo dela Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid befindet sich ein Selbstporträt Francisco de Goyas, auf dem er sich malend vor einer Staffelei und dabei einen Hut mit auf der Krempe aufgebrachten Kerzen tragend, darstellt. Goya nutzte den Hut als Kunstgriff, um beim Malen künstliches Licht nutzen zu können, welches seinen Arbeiten zu einem besonderen Effekt verhalf. Andererseits weist das vorliegende Gemälde Hahns eine deutliche stilistische Nähe zu den Werken van Goghs auf. Als Beispiele wären die adaptierte Farbpalette und die Malweise mit ihren breiten, pastosen Pinselstrichen zu nennen.
Vincent van Gogh war ein Motiv, das Hahn bereits 1982 in einigen Bleistiftzeichnungen nach van Goghs Selbstporträts variierte. Ausgangspunkt für dieses Thema waren die Filmszenen aus der Van-Gogh-Biographie «Lust for Life» (1955) mit Kirk Douglas, die Hahn ab circa 1981 in seinem typischen Duktus von der filmischen «Leinwand» auf die malerische Leinwand übertrug. 1983 und 1984 entstehen schließlich auch einige Arbeiten in Öl nach den Selbstporträts van Goghs. Im Film «Lust for Life» gibt es aber auch eine Szene, in der van Gogh nachts mit einem Kerzenhut wie einst Goya malt.
Literatur: Mythos und Farbe, Die Filmbilder von Friedemann Hahn, Ausst.-Kat. Städt. Kunstmuseum Singen, Ostfildern 1995, Abb. 
«Maler mit Kerzenhut (painter with candle hat)». Oil on canvas. Verso signed and dated (19)86. Literature: Mythos und Farbe, Die Filmbilder von Friedemann Hahn, Ausst.-Kat. Städt. Kunstmuseum Singen, Ostfildern 1995, ill.