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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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2199a
Herbstauktionen 25.–26.09.2015
Kounellis, Jannis
Geb. 1936 Piräus, lebt und arbeitet in Rom.
Untitled (Sx). Ink on squared paper. Verso signed, dated (19)61 and inscribed «Roma». Verso on the back board a label of Gallery Natalie Seroussi, Paris, as well as a label of Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago/New York, each with the work's data. Further a label of André Chenue & Fils Transports Internationaux, Paris, one of Acumen Fine Art Logistics Inc., as well as further labels.
From the series «Alphabetic Paintings», created between 1958 and 1966, which became one of the most important group of works within Kounellis' early oeuvre. These artworks, mostly consisting words or signs in wide, stereotyping strokes and lines, are reminding of simultaneous works by Cy Twombly or the letter sequences by Piero Manzoni, and can be considered as a reaction on the parallel created works of Art Informel. They became the roots of a completely new artistic language: the Arte Povera.
Provenance: Gallery Natalie Seroussi, Paris; Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago/New York; private collection.
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Geb. 1936 Piräus, lebt und arbeitet in Rom.
Untitled (Sx). Tinte auf kariertem Papier. Verso sign., (19)61 dat. und bez. «Roma». Verso auf der Rahmenrückwand ein Etikett der Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris, sowie der Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago/New York, jeweils mit den Angaben zum Werk. Ferner ein Etikett der André Chenue & Fils Transports Internationaux, Paris, sowie der Acumen Fine Art Logistics Inc. und weitere Etiketten.
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Aus der Serie der «Alphabet Paintings», die zwischen 1958 und 1966 entstanden und zu einer der wichtigsten Schwerpunkte im Frühwerk von Kounellis wurden. Die Arbeiten dieser Serie, die zeitgleichen Werken Cy Twomblys oder den Buchstabenfolgen Piero Manzonis gleichen, meist Worte oder Zeichen in breiten, schablonenhaften Linienzügen, sind eine Reaktion auf die parallel entstehenden Werke der Art Informel und wurden zum Ursprung einer völlig neuen künstlerischen Formensprache: der Arte Povera.
Provenienz: Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris; Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago/New York; Privatsammlung.
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