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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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Feininger, Lyonel
1871 New York - 1956 Berlin.
«Sunrise/Kleinstadt». 1911. Etching on Hosho laid cream paper. Signed lower left and titled lower right «Kleinstadt». Inscribed lower right in the plate «Leinoel Einfinger 1911». With the dry stamp of Fritz Gurlitt Verlag at the lower left corner of the margin. Plate destroyed.
This work, variously titled by the artist «Sunrise», «The Sunrise Hour» or, like in this particular example, «Kleinstadt» refers to a preparatory drawing in India ink and gouache, which shows the composition mirror inverted and with slight changes, and is located in a Swiss private collection.
The marvelous sheet offered here comes from an edition of 130 impressions signed and titled in pencil by the artist, with fine plate tone and full margins, and is presenting itself in excellent condition.
Printed in several editions and various papers. One edition, titled «Sonnenaufgang in der Kleinstadt», has been published in the portfolio «Arno Holz zum sechzigsten Geburtstag gewidmet von deutschen Künstlern», 100 numbered examples, edited by Fritz Gurlitt Verlag, Berlin, 1923.
Provenance: private collection Hesse.
Catalogue raisonné: Prasse E 37.
Literature: Gerhard Söhn, Handbuch der Original-Graphik, 
1871 New York - 1956 Berlin.
«Sunrise/Kleinstadt». 1911. Radierung auf chamoisfarbenem Bütten von Hosho. U.l. sign. und u.r. bet. «Kleinstadt». U.r. in der Platte bez. «Leinoel Einfinger 1911». U.l. mit dem Trockenstempel des Fritz Gurlitt Verlages versehen. Platte gestrichen.
H. 15,8,
Dieses vom Künstler unterschiedlich mit «Sunrise», «The Sunrise Hour» oder, wie bei dem hier vorliegenden Exemplar, mit «Kleinstadt» betitelte Werk nimmt Bezug auf eine 1911 datierte Vorzeichnung in Tusche, koloriert in Gouache, welche die Komposition spiegelverkehrt und mit leichten Veränderungen wiedergibt und sich heute in schweizer Privatbesitz befindet.
Das hier angebotene Blatt dieser ausgesprochen schönen Arbeit, eines von 130 vom Künstler eigenhändig in Bleistift signierten und betitelten Exemplaren, mit schönem Plattenton und vollen Rändern, präsentiert sich in hervorragendem Zustand.
Erschienen in mehreren Auflagen auf unterschiedlichen Papieren. Eine Auflage, betitelt «Sonnenaufgang in der Kleinstadt», erschien 1923 im Portfolio «Arno Holz zum sechzigsten Geburtstag gewidmet von deutschen Künstlern». Das Portfolio wurde in einer Auflage von 100 nummerierten Exemplaren vom Fritz Gurlitt Verlag, Berlin, 1923 herausgegeben.
Provenienz: Privatsammlung Hessen.
Werkverzeichnis: Prasse E 37.
Literatur: Gerhard Söhn, Handbuch der Original-Graphik,