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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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Klasen, Peter
Geb. 1935 Lübeck, lebt und arbeitet in Vincennes.
«Branchement». Acrylic on canvas. Verso signed, dated 1988 and titled, as well as two labels of Gallery Louis Carré, Paris.
Peter Klasen is an important member of the «Figuration Narrative». Typical for his work is the utilization of acrylic paintings in combination with applied elements of collage or assemblage. Furthermore the division of his paintings into zones and, since the 1960s, frequently recurring motifs and diverse armatures like plug sockets, switches and painted or applied water taps. With this configuration, the so-called «modelled painting», Klasen achieves a high degree three-dimensional effect of his depicted objects, which are characterised by a clean, cool and photo-realistic formal language.
This work can be visited by appointment at Zollfreilager ART Sped Schütz GmbH in
Photo certificate: photo of the work, signed by the artist, Vincennes, 04.02.2014.
Provenance: Gallery Louis Carré, Paris; private collection.
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Geb. 1935 Lübeck, lebt und arbeitet in Vincennes.
«Branchement». Acryl auf Leinwand. Verso sign., 1988 dat. und bet. sowie zwei Etiketten der Galerie Louis Carré, Paris.
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Peter Klasen ist ein bedeutendes Mitglied der «Figuration Narrative». Typisch für seine Werke sind Acrylmalereien in Kombination mit Collage- bzw. Assemblageelementen, die Einteilung seiner Bilder in Zonen sowie die ab den 1960er Jahren stets wiederkehrenden Motive und diverse Armaturen wie Steckdosen, Schalter oder auch gemalte oder applizierte Wasserhähne. Mit dieser Anordnung, dem «modellierenden Malen», erzielt Klasen eine sehr plastische Wirkung seiner Bildgegenstände, denen eine kühle, photoartige Formsprache zu eigen ist.
Das Werk befindet sich im Zollfreilager der ART Sped Schütz GmbH in
Photo-Zertifikat: vom Künstler signierte Photographie des Werkes, Vincennes, 04.02.2014.
Provenienz: Galerie Louis Carré, Paris; Privatsammlung.
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