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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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Corinth, Lovis
1858 Tapiau - 1925 Zandvoort.
Öl/Lw. Schlosspark. Auf einem Weg um ein Rondell im Vordergrund Charlotte Berend-Corinth mit Hund, dahinter Blick auf den im englischen Stil locker bepflanzten und von einem Fluss durchzogenen Park von Schloss Westendorf, in der Ferne durch das Geäst der Bäume leuchtende Dächer. U.l. sign. und 1908 dat.
Während die Landschaftsmalerei ebenso wie das Stillleben in der frühen Zeit Corinths eine geringe Rolle gespielt hatten, begann er sich auf einem Höhepunkt seiner Schaffenskraft im ersten Jahrzehnt des 20. Jhs. auch diesen Genres zuzuwenden.
Die Übersiedlung von München nach Berlin 1901 und die Wahl in den Vorstand der Berliner Sezession im darauffolgenden Jahr eröffneten Corinth nicht nur neue Möglichkeiten, seine Kunst bekannt zu machen. Die Rezeption der französischen Impressionisten, vor allem Manets, führte Corinths Stil in eine Richtung, für die später der Begriff «Deutscher Impressionismus» geprägt werden sollte.
Bei einem Aufenthalt auf Schloss Westendorf in der Lüneburger Heide entstand 1908 die hier angebotene in lichten Farben gehaltene großformatige Momentaufnahme eines Sommertages. Die Komposition gewährt durch den erhöhten Standpunkt einen umfassenden Blick über die großzügige Parkanlage mit ihren unterschiedlichen Bäumen und Gehölzen, bezieht den Betrachter aber durch das angeschnittene Rondell gleichsam in die Szenerie mit ein. Der Schatten im Vordergrund, der sich windende Weg und der Fluss leiten den Blick zusätzlich in die Tiefe des Bildraums.
Provenienz: Geschenk des Künstlers an Arthur Kraft; Schweizer Privatsammlung.
Ausstellungen: Lovis Corinth, Ausstellung des Lebenswerkes, Galerie Paul Cassirer in den Räumen der Sezession, Berlin 1913,
Werkverzeichnis: Berend-Corinth/Hernad 356.
Palace Garden. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left and dated 1908. Provenance: Donated to Arthur Kraft by the artist; Swiss private collection. Exhibitions: Lovis Corinth, Ausstellung des Lebenswerkes, Galerie Paul Cassirer in den Räumen der Sezession, Berlin 1913,