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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
Schröder-Sonnenstern, Friedrich
1892 Kaukehmen by Tilsit - 1982 Berlin.
«Die Göttin der Eile (the goddess of haste)». «Mondelinchen, fortschrittliche Rekordleistung zu Lande, Luft und Meer (Mondelinchen, advanced record performance on land, air and sea)».
Coloured pencil on brownish wove paper. Signed lower middle, monogrammed, dated 1949 and titled. Verso numbered «1967/001» as well as a printed label from the Galerie Hilt, Basel, with the work's data.
H 51,5,
The fantastic, often erotic to grotesque image worlds of Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern are considered as examples of outsider art. Sonnenstern, who had a veritable psychiatric career in his earlier years, did not begin to draw until he was over 50. This is where he was able to express his visions. The motif of the goddess of haste, or Mondelinchen, which he created here in 1949 in an early drawing, appears several more times in his later work.
Schröder-Sonnenstern did not always have a good reputation in the art world. Through his enormous productivity - also by means of helpers - he also contributed to this himself. «At the same time, casually said the artist, who was increasingly addicted to alcohol, there was one infallible mark of authenticity: the splashes of chewing tobacco on the paper.» from: Dorothée Brill, Mondmoralische Praxis, 07.01.2014, Link.
«So I can't make enough round shapes in my paintings - no sharp corners, because that would be life itself. All roundness is there for cognition. Battle of the Sun Stars I against the Moon Stars II. I Rightness of life: natural, become, growth. II Wrongness of life: artificial, made, withering.» Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, in: Galerie Hoeppner (Ed.), Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Original-Buntstiftbilder, Zeichnungen, Lithographien, Hamburg 1972, w/o p.
Provenance: purchased at Galerie Hilt, Basel, in 1998; since then private collection Dreiländereck.
Invoice: Galerie Hilt, Basel, 18.04.1998, invoice amount
Literature: Galerie Hoeppner (Ed.), Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Original-Buntstiftbilder, Zeichnungen, Lithographien, Hamburg 1972, inside front cover (cf.).
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