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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Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023 Jewellery | ||||
1201 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Moderner entourage emerald ring with diamonds 2010s. Red gold 18k. Divided, laterally crossing ring band, elevated front, centrally set with one pear-cut emerald ... | starting price: 1900,- EUR | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 3004 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Estève, Maurice 1904 Culan - 2001 ibid. «Intérieur». Watercolour and India ink on strong wove paper. Signed upper left and ... | starting price: 12000,- EUR | ||
Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2006 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Estève, Maurice 1904 Culan - 2001 ibid. «Intérieur». Watercolour and India ink on strong wove paper. Signed upper left and ... | starting price: 15000,- EUR | ||
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3151 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Märklin railway set from the 1930s and 1950s with supplies Göppingen late 1930s. Gauge 00. Cast metal and sheet metal, painted. Including a steam locomotive with a tender, model ... | ||||
Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2133 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Feininger, Lyonel 1871 New York - 1956 ibid. Steamer. Watercolour and charcoal on paper, mounted on backing cardboard at the upper ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2134 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Feininger, Lyonel 1871 New York - 1956 ibid. «Distance». Watercolour and ink on paper, mounted on backing cardboard at the upper ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2135 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Feininger, Lyonel 1871 New York - 1956 ibid. Two steamer ships. Watercolour and ink on paper, mounted on backing cardboard at the ... | |||
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3199 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Cylinder musical box with flute playing and clock by Johann Heinrich Heller Bern circa 1880. Walnut, walnut burl and elm, veneered, ebonised, and fire-gilt bronze. Rectangular case with inlays, ... | ||||
Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2017 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Feininger, Lyonel 1871 New York - 1956 ibid. Steamer. Watercolour and charcoal on paper, mounted on backing cardboard at the upper ... | starting price: 25000,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2018 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Feininger, Lyonel 1871 New York - 1956 ibid. Two steamer ships. Watercolour and ink on paper, mounted on backing cardboard at the ... | starting price: 20000,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2019 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Feininger, Lyonel 1871 New York - 1956 ibid. «Distance». Watercolour and ink on paper, mounted on backing cardboard at the upper ... | starting price: 22000,- EUR | ||
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4299 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. «Bahnübergang Karlsruhe (train crossing Karlsruhe)». Etching with drypoint on ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2220 (Autumn Auctions Racz, Ladislao Geb. 1920 Budapest. «Ovation et Hommage». Oil on formica. Monogrammed lower left. Verso on label signed, multiple ... | starting price: 600,- EUR | ||
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4757 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Bizer, Emil 1881 Pforzheim - 1957 Badenweiler. E Landscape with railroad crossing. Watercolour on paper. Unsigned. ... | ||||
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2751 (Autumn Auctions Pietro-de-Rossi-Miniatur-Kabinett Miniature cabinet with engraved decoration and two miniatures portraits by Pietro de Rossi (1761 (?) - 1831 St. ... | starting price: 7500,- EUR | |||
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2818 (Autumn Auctions Demetz, Karl 1909 Trossingen - 1986 Apfelstetten. View of the Blockturm in Nürtingen. Oil on cardboard. Signed lower ... | ||||
2819 (Autumn Auctions Demetz, Karl 1909 Trossingen - 1986 Apfelstetten. View across Stuttgart. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. DDDD1909 ... | ||||
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2926 (Autumn Auctions Demetz, Karl 1909 Trossingen - 1986 Apfelstetten. Pasture landscape. Watercolour on paper. Signed lower left in pencil. Minor ... | ||||
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1041 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Barocker Ratsherrenstuhl Deutsch um | ||||
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1366 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Demetz, Karl 1909 Trossingen - 1986 Apfelstetten. Öl/Lw. Getreideernte. Unter gewittrigem Himmel vor hügeliger Landschaft ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2426 (Spring Sale Paar Lithographien Koloriert. Um 1900. Auf Steg stehende Kinder, angelnd. Drei Damen, auf einer Bank an der Strandpromenade sitzend und ... | |||
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0359 (Winter Sale Vier Medaillen Meißen nach 1900. Porzellan, unglasiert. Vier Porträtmedaillen. Vorderseite Porträts von Gioacchino Rossini, Alexander ... | ||||
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1779 (Autumn Sale Demetz, Karl 1909 Trossingen - 1986 Apfelstetten. Öl/Lw. Mittelalterliche Gasse mit Figurenstaffage. Im Hintergrund Kirchturm ... | ||||
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2743 (Spring Sale Successi dell'armi venete in Levante Nella campagna, 1685. Sotto la prudente condotta del Capitan Generale da Mar Francesco Morosini. Venedig, Stefano ... | ||||
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2598 (Autumn Sale Rossi Neapler Maler 19./ Öl/Lw. Rauchender Lümmel. Brustbildnis eines Jungen im Ringelshirt und mit ... | starting price: 320,- EUR |
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