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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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Winterauktionen 24.–25.11.2023
Dalí, Salvador
1904 Figueres - 1989 ibid.
«Trajano joven».
Yellow gold 18k, mounted on a black marble base. Signed on the plinth, numbered «68» and dated 1973. Hallmark and mark «B» in hexagon with indistinct sequence of numbers.
H 10,5,
H 7,8,
Work from an edition of 107 signed and numbered copies.
Trajan is considered to be the first Roman emperor whose family was not settled in the capital of the empire but in the Spanish province. He was awarded the honorary title of «optimus princeps» (best emperor), a distinction that no emperor before or after him ever received. And he is considered Dalí's favourite emperor. This, by the way, «[...] not only because he was Spanish, [...] but because the Roman Empire was the most widespread in his time, [...] art and literature flourished and he rejected the persecution of Christians. Dalí felt spiritually connected to him.» from: Sammlerkreis für Kunst, Verband deutscher Ärzte, 28.07.1987
The sculpture of pure gold is in the tradition of medieval golden Madonna representations or Benvenuto Cellini's famous Saliera. The noble 18-karat precious metal, which Dalí chose as the casting material for his small sculpture, particularly captivates the viewer.
Certificate of authenticity: of the artist, 1973, signed by hand and numbered «68».
Provenance: purchased from the Sammlerkreis für Kunst, Verband deutscher Ärzte, in 1973; since then private collection High Rhine.
Purchase price: according to written correspondence
Literature: Robert and Nicolas Descharnes, Dalí, Le dur et le mou, Sortilège et magie des formes, Sculptures & Objets, Paris 2003, p. 184,
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