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 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3228 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Warhol, Andy 1928 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. «Mildred Scheel». Colour serigraph with so called «Diamond Dust» (ground glass) ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3229 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Warhol, Andy 1928 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. «Mildred Scheel». Colour serigraph with so called «Diamond Dust» (ground glass) ... | |||
Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2155 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Warhol, Andy after 1828 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. «Diamond Dust Marylin». 2012. Colour serigraph with so called «Diamond Dust» ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2156 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Warhol, Andy after 1828 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. «Beethoven 11.390». 2020. Colour serigraph on museum cardboard. Sunday B. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2157 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Warhol, Andy 1928 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. 1 Dollar Bill (George Washington) 1957. Dollar ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2158 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Warhol, Andy 1928 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. 2 Dollar Bill (Thomas Jefferson) 1976. Dollar Bill ... | starting price: 800,- EUR | ||
Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2175 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Warhol, Andy 1928 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. 2 Dollar Bill (Thomas Jefferson) 1976. Dollar note ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2176 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Warhol, Andy 1928 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. 2 Dollar Bill (Thomas Jefferson) 1976. Dollar note ... | |||
Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2212 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Warhol, Andy 1928 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. «Neuschwanstein». 1987. Serigraph in colours on Arches 88 paper. Signed lower ... | |||
Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2104 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Klemm, Barbara Born 1939 Münster, lives and works in Frankfurt a.M. Andy Warhol at the Städel Museum. Silver gelatine print on ... | |||
Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2256 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Warhol, Andy 1928 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. «Cow». 1966. Serigraph in colours on light cardboard. Unsigned. Inscribed with the ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2257 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Warhol, Andy 1928 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. «Campbell's Soup can on shopping bag». 1966. Serigraph in colours on a paper ... | |||
Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3113 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Warhol, Andy 1927 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. «Campbell's Soup can on shopping bag». 1966. Screen print in colours on a paper ... | starting price: 600,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3114 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Warhol, Andy 1927 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. «The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)». Published by ... | |||
Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2190 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Warhol, Andy 1927 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. «LP: The Velvet Underground & Nico». Produced by Andy Warhol, New York 1967. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2191 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Warhol, Andy 1927 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. «The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)». Published by ... | starting price: 1200,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2192 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Warhol, Andy 1927 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. «Campbell's Soup can on shopping bag». 1966. Screen print in colours on a paper ... | starting price: 1200,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2193 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Warhol, Andy 1927 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. «One Dollar Bill». Circa 1980. One dollar bill with collaged postage stamp. Signed ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2194 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Warhol, Andy nach 1927 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. After Andy Warhol. «Mao - Hot Pink / Sunday B. Morning». Screen print in colours ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2195 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Warhol, Andy nach 1927 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. After Andy Warhol. «Flowers / Sunday B. Morning». Screen print in colours on light ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2196 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Warhol, Andy nach 1927 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. After Andy Warhol. «Campbell's Tomato-Beef Noodle's Soup Can / Sunday B. ... | |||
Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2257 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Warhol, Andy 1927 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. «Campbell's Soup Can Bank (Vegetable Garden)». Felt-tip pen on reproduction of a ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2258 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Warhol, Andy 1927 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. «Brillo Box». Felt-tip pen on colour-printed cardboard packaging, in an acrylic ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2259 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Warhol, Andy 1927 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. «Interview: Jessica Lange». Complete magazine, edition April 1979. Signed in the ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2260 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Warhol, Andy 1927 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. «Interview: Mary Tyler Moore». Complete magazine, edition April 1981. Signed lower ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2261 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Warhol, Andy 1927 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. «Interview: Patti Lapone». Complete magazine, edition October 1980. Signed right ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2262 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Warhol, Andy 1927 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. «Interview: Marina Schiano». Complete magazine, edition May 1980. Signed right ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2220 (Spring Auctions Warhol, Andy 1927 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. «Campbell's Soup can on shopping bag». 1966. Screen print in colours on a paper ... | |||
Autumn Auctions | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1376 (Autumn Auctions Warhol, Andy 1927 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. Campbell's tomato soup. Felt-tip pen on paper. Dedication upper and lower middle, ... | starting price: 2500,- EUR | ||
Winter Sale | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2529 (Winter Sale Warhol, Andy 1927 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. Farblithographie. Aus der Folge «In the bottom of my garden». Rothaariger Putto, ... |
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