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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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Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl
1884 Rottluff - 1976 Berlin.
Still life with shell. Circa 1950. Watercolour and coloured pencil on paper. Signed lower right in pencil. Edges mounted. Passepartout. Authentication: We would like to thank Ms. Christiane Remm, Karl und Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Stiftung, Berlin, for the scientific advice via e-mail based on photos.
1884 Rottluff - 1976 Berlin.
Stillleben mit Muschel. Um 1950. Aquarell und Farbstift/Papier. Arrangement mit einer weißen bzw. leicht rötlich schimmernden Muschel, einer grünen Pflanze im Topf und zwei Gefäßen in Blau und Gelb vor dunklem Hintergrund. Mit Bleistift u.r. sign. An den Ecken montiert. H. 47,7, B. 61,7 cm (Darstellung und Blattgröße). Passepartout.
Schmidt-Rottluff, einer der berühmtesten Vertreter der Künstlergruppe Die Brücke, ist hier mit einem für die 1950er Jahre typischen Stillleben vertreten, vergleichbar etwa mit dem späteren Werk «Dunkle Gloxinie» aus dem Jahr 1957, welches eine ganz ähnliche Komposition vergleichbarer Gegenstände zeigt. Die Muschel könnte ein Verweis auf die langen Sommeraufenthalte des Künstlers an Ost- und Nordsee sein, in welchen er ständig die Begegnung mit der Natur suchte, bis er schließlich im Jahr 1951 ins schleswig-holsteinische Sierksdorf zog.
Authentifizierung: Wir danken Frau Christiane Remm, Karl und Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Stiftung, Berlin, für die wissenschaftliche Beratung via E-Mail anhand von Photos. Motiv, Stil und Blattgröße entsprechen den anderen Werken aus dieser Entstehungszeit. Signatur entspricht der Handschrift des Künstlers.