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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 19.–20.11.2021
Hesse, Hermann
1877 Calw - 1962 Montagnola.
«Frau Moilliet zur Weihnacht 1918 (Mrs Moilliet for Christmas 1918)».
Handwritten and typed manuscript respectively typescript of poems with signature and dedication to Marguerite Moilliet, Christmas 1918. Ten typewritten poems on eleven sheets of Ingres paper by Arches (watermark). With eleven watercoloured pen and ink drawings depicting floral still lifes, landscapes, buildings and an interior as well as with handwritten title each. The poems have the following titles: «Auch die Blumen (even the flowers)», «Schicksalstage (days of fate)», «Sommernacht (summer night)», «Landschaft (landscape)», «An die Freunde in schwerer Zeit (to friends in difficult times)», «Wanderung (hike)», «Abends (in the evening)», «Einsamer Abend (lonely evening)», «Bruder Tod (brother death)», «Der Klang (the sound)».
H 24,
Hermann Hesse, who was in charge of the «Bücherzentrale für deutsche Kriegsgefangene (book centre for German prisoners of war)» at the German Embassy in Bern during and immediately after the end of the First World War, suffered from an acute shortage of money in the winter of 1918/19 and therefore created several poetry manuscripts individually designed with drawings by his own hand, which he sold to «friends and collectors of beautiful books and rarities etc.». In a letter to the painter Cuno Amiet (1868 - 1961), he describes this austere period, which was marked not only by financial worries but also by his wife's severe nervous condition. In the course of 1919, he found a new home in Ticino in picturesque surroundings.
Scientific perusal: This manuscript was kept for several weeks in the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach for research purposes in the summer of 2008.
Provenance: gift of the author in 1918 to Marguerite Moilliet, sister-in-law of the painter Louis Moilliet (1880 - 1962); by succession transferred into private possession Müllheim.
The Swiss painter and glass painter Louis Moilliet, a protagonist of Orphism, visited Hermann Hesse in Ticino in the summer of 1920, whereupon he became the model for the figure of the painter Louis in Hesse's story «Klingsors letzter Sommer (Klingsor's last summer)».
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