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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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Herbstauktionen 19.–20.10.2018
Steen, Jan Havickszoon Umkreis oder Nachfolge
1626 Leiden - 1679 ebd.
Circle or follower of Jan Havickszoon Steen. «La déclaration d'amour». Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Verso on the stretcher an old printed label and a handwritten label, both with the work's data, as well as indistinctly stamped.
H 38,8, W 31,2 cm. Elaborate frame.
«The composition of your painting is documented in our files with a number of different versions [...] I think it is quite likely that all have been based on a no longer known original.» (Ellis Dullaart, Curator, Dutch and Flemish Old Master Paintings, Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis (RKD), Den Haag, 28.08.2018).
Assessment: We would like to thank Mrs Ellis Dullaart, Curator, Dutch and Flemish Old Master Paintings, Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis (RKD), Den Haag, for the scientific advice via
Provenance: since 1963 private collection A.M. Wellensiek, Amersfoort; Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 12.-28.10.1971, lot 478; Fischer, Luzern, 04.-14.11.1980, lot 2982; private collection Switzerland; Gallery Friederike Pallamar, Vienna, 1981-1988; private collection (research RKD, Den Haag).
Literature: Tobias van Westrheene, Jan Steen, Étude sur l'Art en Hollande, The Hague 1856, 
1626 Leiden - 1679 ebd.
«La déclaration d'amour». Öl auf Leinwand. Unsign. Verso auf dem Keilrahmen ein altes gedrucktes Etikett und ein handschriftliches Etikett, jeweils mit den Angaben zum Werk, sowie undeutlich gestempelt.
H. 38,8,
«Die Komposition des Gemäldes wird in unseren Akten mit verschiedenen Versionen dokumentiert [...] Ich denke, es ist sehr wahrscheinlich, dass alle auf einem nicht mehr bekannten Original basieren.» (Ellis Dullaart, Curator, Dutch and Flemish Old Master Paintings, Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis (RKD), Den Haag, 28.08.2018).
Beurteilung: Wir danken Frau Ellis Dullaart, Curator, Dutch and Flemish Old Master Paintings, Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis (RKD), Den Haag, für die wissenschaftliche Beratung via
Provenienz: seit 1963 Privatsammlung A.M. Wellensiek, Amersfoort; Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 12.-28.10.1971, Los 478; Fischer, Luzern, 04.-14.11.1980, Los 2982; Privatsammlung Schweiz; Galerie Friederike Pallamar, Wien, 1981-1988; Privatsammlung (Recherche RKD, Den Haag).
Literatur: Tobias van Westrheene, Jan Steen, Étude sur l'Art en Hollande, Den Haag 1856, Kat.Nr. 441 (als Jan Steen, vgl.); Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des 17. Jahrhunderts,