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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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Matthäus Merian vols. I - XVI
First vol. Theatrum Europaeum, Oder / Außführliche und Wahrhafftige Beschreibung […] denckwürdiger Geschichten [...]. Written by Johann Philipp Abelin. Frankfurt a.M., Wolffgang Hoffmann, 1643. With an engraved frontispiece, numerous partly doublepage or folding copper plates, including portraits, depictions of battles, vedute and maps as well as some vignettes and initials. 1147 p. Not collated.
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Second vol. Theatri Europaei, Das ist: Historischer Chronik / Oder Wahrhaffter Beschreibung aller führnehmen und denckwürdigen Geschichten [...]. Written by Johann Philipp Abelin and Johann Flittner. Frankfurt a.M., 1646. With an engraved frontispiece after a draft by Ioh. Hülsman, numerous partly doublepage or folding copper plates, including portraits, depictions of battles, vedute and maps, among them a depiction of the eruption of Vesuvius in 1631 after a draft by Joachim von Sandrart (pp. 510/511) and a depiction of the capture of the town of Kreuznach by the Swedes in 1631 (pp. 602/603) as well as some vignettes and initials. 778 p. Not collated.
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Third vol. Theatri Europaei Continuatio III. Das ist: Historischer Chronicken Dritter Theil [...]. Written by Heinrich Oraeus. Frankfurt a.M., Wolffgang Hoffman, 1639. With an engraved frontispiece, numerous partly doublepage or folding copper plates, including portraits, depictions of battles, vedute and maps, among them a depiction of the assassination of Wallenstein in 1634 (pp. 180/181) and a view of the city of
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Fourth vol. Theatri Europaei Vierdter Theil / Das ist: Glaubwürdige Beschreibung Denckwürdiger Geschichten [...]. Written by I.P.A. Frankfurt a.M., Matthäus Merian, 1648. With an engraved frontispiece, numerous partly doublepage or folding copper plates, including portraits, depictions of battles, vedute and maps, among them a depiction of the Battle of the Downs in 1639 (pp. 44/45) as well as several vignettes and initials. 927 p. Not collated.
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Fifth vol. Theatri Europaei Fünffter Theil: Das ist / Außführliche Beschreibung / aller denckwürdigen Geschichten [...]. Written by Johann Peter Lotichius. Frankfurt a.M., Wolffgang Hoffmann, 1647. With an engraved frontispiece, numerous partly doublepage or folding copper plates, including portraits, depictions of battles, vedute and maps, among them a depiction of the siege of the city of
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Sixth vol. Theatri Europaei Sechster und letzter Theil / Das ist: Außführliche Beschreibung der Denckwürdigen Geschichten [...]. Written by Johann Georg Schleder. Frankfurt a.M., Matthäus Merian heirs, 1652. With an engraved frontispiece, numerous partly doublepage or folding copper plates, including portraits, depictions of battles, vedute and maps, among them a depiction of the siege of the town of Wasserburg a.Inn by the Swedes in 1648 (pp. 510/511) and a view of the imperial fireworks in Nuremberg in 1650 (pp. 1076/1077) as well as several vignettes and initials. 1208 p. Not collated.
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Seventh vol. Irenico-Polemographia, Sive Theatri Europaei continuati Septennium [...]. Written by Johann Georg Schleder. Frankfurt a.M., Daniel Fievet, 1663. With an engraved frontispiece, numerous partly doublepage or folding copper plates, including portraits, depictions of battles, vedute and maps, among them a view of the royal anointing of Louis XIV in Reims in 1654 (pp. 590/591) as well as several vignettes and initials. 1098 p. Not collated.
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Eighth vol. Irenico-Polemographiae Continuatio I. Das ist […] deß Theatri Europaei Achter Theil [...]. Written by Martin Meyer. Frankfurt a.M., Matthäus Merian heirs, 1667. With an engraved frontispiece, numerous partly doublepage or folding copper plates, including portraits, depictions of battles, vedute and maps, among them a depiction of the equestrian procession on the occasion of the election of the emperor in Frankfurt a.M. in 1658 (pp. 448/449) as well as several vignettes and initials. 1388 p. Not collated.
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Ninth vol. Irenico-Polemographiae Continuatio II. Das ist […] deß Theatri Europaei Neundter Theil [...]. Written by Martin Meyer. Frankfurt a.M., Matthäus Merian heirs, 1672. With an engraved frontispiece, numerous partly doublepage or folding copper plates, including portraits, depictions of battles, vedute and maps, among them a map of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (before p. 1) as well as several vignettes and initials. 1576 p. Not collated.
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Tenth vol. Irenico-Polemographiae Continuatio III. Das ist […] deß Theatri Europaei Zehender Theil [...]. Written by Martin Meyer and Wolfgang Jacob Geiger. Two parts in one vol. Frankfurt a.M., Balthasar Christoph Wust and Johann Görlin, 1677. With an engraved frontispiece, numerous partly doublepage or folding copper plates, including portraits, battle depictions, vedute and maps, among them a depiction of the eruption of Etna in 1669 (pp. 26/27) as well as several vignettes and initials. First part 982 p., second part 620 p. Not collated.
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Eleventh vol. Theatri Europaei Eilffter Theil [...]. Published anonymously. Frankfurt a.M., Balthasar Christoph Wust and Johann Görlin, 1682. With an engraved frontispiece, numerous partly doublepage or folding copper plates, including portraits, depictions of battles, vedute and maps, among them four depictions of dam breaches during a storm surge in the Netherlands in 1675 (pp. 924/925) as well as several vignettes and initials. 1484 p. Not collated.
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Twelfth vol. Theatri Europaei Continuati Zwölffter Theil [...]. Published anonymously. Frankfurt a.M., Johann Görlin, 1691. With an engraved frontispiece by G.A. Wolffgang, numerous partly doublepage or folding copper plates, including portraits, depictions of battles, views and maps, among them a view of the Place des Victoires, Paris (pp. 1070/1071) as well as several vignettes and initials. 1146 p. Not collated.
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Thirteenth vol. Theatri Europaei Continuati Dreyzehender Theil [...]. Published anonymously. Frankfurt a.M., Johann Görlin, 1698. With an engraved frontispiece, numerous partly doublepage or folding copper plates, including portraits, depictions of battles, views and maps, among them a view of the city of Erlau/Eger (pp. 38/39) as well as several vignettes and initials. 1363 p. Not collated.
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Fourteenth vol. Theatri Europaei Continuati Vierzehender Theil [...]. Published anonymously. Frankfurt a.M., Johann Görlin, 1702. With an engraved frontispiece, numerous partly doublepage or folding copper plates, including portraits, depictions of battles, views and maps, among them a depiction of a naval battle of the Dutch and English fleets against the French in 1692 (pp. 284/285) as well as several vignettes and initials. 889 p. Not collated.
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Sixteenth vol. Theatri Europaei Sechszehender Theil [...]. Written by Daniel Schneider (published anonymously). Two parts in one vol. Frankfurt a.M., Anton Heinscheit, 1717. With an engraved frontispiece by Wolffgang after a draft by Wentzel, numerous partly doublepage or folding copper plates, including portraits, depictions of battles, views and maps, among them a depiction of the anointing of the Prussian King Frederick I in the Palace Chapel of Königsberg in 1701 (pp. 114/115), a view of the silver buffet in the Knight's Hall of the Berlin Palace (pp. 244/245), a view of the summer palace Monbijou by J. Böcklin after a draft by Eosander von Göthe (pp. 254/255) and a view of Constantinople (p. 468) as well as several vignettes and initials. First part 1147 p., second part 468 p. Not collated.
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Provenance: Library of the last Prince-Bishop of Basel Franz Xaver von Neveu (1749 - 1828); after his death it became private property of the family of Neveu, Durbach.
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