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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4356 (Autumn Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Snowy landscape in the Black Forest. Oil on canvas. Signed lower ... | ||||
4357 (Autumn Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Sonniger Wintertag im Kandelgebiet (sunny winter's day at ... | ||||
4358 (Autumn Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Snowmelt in the Black Forest. Oil on canvas. Signed lower ... | ||||
4359 (Autumn Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Sunny winter's day in the Black Forest. Oil on structured ... | ||||
4360 (Autumn Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest house in a summer landscape. Gouache on cardboard, ... | ||||
4361 (Autumn Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Feldberg im Schwarzwald von Hinterzarten aus (view of the ... | ||||
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4425 (Spring Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest houses in winter landscape. Oil on canvas. Signed ... | ||||
4426 (Spring Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest houses in snowy landscape. Oil on canvas. Signed ... | ||||
4427 (Spring Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 On a sunny winter's day in the Black Forest. Oil on canvas. ... | ||||
4428 (Spring Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Snow-covered mountain landscape with conifers. Oil on canvas. ... | ||||
4429 (Spring Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Sunny winter's day in the Black Forest. Oil on structured ... | starting price: 5500,- EUR | |||
4430 (Spring Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest house with pond on a summer day. Oil on structured ... | ||||
4431 (Spring Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest houses on a sunny day in autumn. Oil on canvas. ... | ||||
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4481 (Autumn Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Feldberg im Winter (Feldberg in winter)». Oil on panel. Signed ... | ||||
4482 (Autumn Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Upcoming snow storm in the Black Forest. Oil on canvas. Signed ... | ||||
4483 (Autumn Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «In Bernau». Oil on canvas. Signed and dated (19)38 lower left. ... | ||||
4484 (Autumn Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 On a sunny winter's day. Oil on canvas. Signed lower ... | ||||
4485 (Autumn Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Titisee. Oil on masonite. Signed and dated (19)36 lower left. ... | ||||
4486 (Autumn Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Snow-covered Black Forest house. Gouache and opaque white on ... | ||||
4487 (Autumn Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Alter Hof in St. Märgen an einem sonnigen Wintertag (farmhouse in ... | ||||
4488 (Autumn Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest house in autumn. Oil on canvas. Signed and inscribed ... | ||||
4489 (Autumn Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Herbst im Schwarzwald (autumn in the Black Forest)». Oil on ... | ||||
4490 (Autumn Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Spring awakening. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Provenance: ... | ||||
4491 (Autumn Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Farms near Bernau in the Black Forest. Oil on panel. Signed and ... | ||||
4492 (Autumn Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Bodensee. Oil on canvas. Signed and inscribed «Frbrg.» lower ... | ||||
4493 (Autumn Auctions Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Blumenstudie (flower sketch)». 1937. Oil on cardboard. ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
5494 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. Birch forest. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. DDDD1880 Freiburg i.Br. - ... | ||||
5495 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. Fir forest during changing weather. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. ... | ||||
5496 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. «Bei Viertäler (near Viertäler)». Oil on panel. Signed lower left. Verso ... | ||||
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4663 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Freiburg i.Br. - 1947 Todtnau. E Black Forest farmhouse in the glow of the sunset. Oil on canvas. Signed and ... |
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