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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Image under artist's copyright. | 2245 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Vasarely, Victor 1908 Pécs - 1997 Paris. Polychrome composition. Collage of coloured, embossed papers, mounted on cardboard. Signed ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2250 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Völkle, Bernd Geb. 1940 Müllheim/Baden, lebt und arbeitet in Tannenkirch/Baden. Cheese. Collage of paper, gouache and chalk on ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2255 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Walther, Franz Erhard Geb. 1939 Fulda, lebt und arbeitet in Fulda. «For Silence (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Museum Krefeld 1972). Für Streik (For ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2256 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Warhol, Andy 1928 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. «Cow». 1966. Serigraph in colours on light cardboard. Unsigned. Inscribed with the ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2257 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Warhol, Andy 1928 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York. «Campbell's Soup can on shopping bag». 1966. Serigraph in colours on a paper ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2266 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Wilding, Ludwig 1927 Grünstadt - 2010 Buchholz. Untitled (one circular composition overlay and two further kinetic compositions). ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2269 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Zeitgenössischer Künstler Modern landscape painter second half | |||
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3383 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Kobell, Ferdinand von 1740 Mannheim - 1799 München. Pre-alpine landscape. Brown ink on laid paper. Unsigned. Verso personal dedication ... | ||||
3395 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Waterloo, Anthonie attr. 1609 Lille - 1690 Utrecht. Boscage with horseman. Black chalk on ribbed (Vergé) paper (watermark). Unsigned. Verso ... | ||||
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3397 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Apfelbaum, Friedrich Adolf 1904 Hagen - 1974 ebd. «Dorfbach (village stream)». Oil on canvas. Signed lower left and dated (19)43. Verso ... | ||||
3403 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Benz, Otto 1933 Stuttgart - 1999 Ibiza. Monkey & horse. Five drawings probably for a campaign of Verkehrsverbund Stuttgart. ... | ||||
3457 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Kalten Brunnen Joch (Kalten Brunnen col)». Pencil on strong wove ... | ||||
3461 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Vast Black Forest landscape. Pencil on greyish wove paper, with ... | ||||
3466 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Winterlandschaft mit Hof und Kapelle (winter landscape with ... | ||||
3469 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Schwarzwaldmühle (Black Forest mill)». Oil on canvas, relined. ... | ||||
3470 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Am Belchen (at the Belchen)». Oil on canvas. Signed lower ... | ||||
3479 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Kimmich, Wilhelm 1897 Lauterbach-Föhrenbühl - 1986 ebd. Vogtsbauernhof with young peasant woman. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right ... | ||||
3480 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Klarl, Josef 1909 Straubing - 1987 Schelklingen. «Sonnige Weide (sunny pasture)». Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Verso on ... | ||||
3521 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Werner, Anton Alexander von 1843 Frankfurt a.d.O. - 1915 Berlin. «Bad. Staatsminister Matthy (Baden minister of state Mathy)». Pencil on wove ... | ||||
3522 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Werner, Anton Alexander von 1843 Frankfurt a.d.O. - 1915 Berlin. «König Karl v. Würtemberg (King Charles of Württemberg)». Pencil on wove ... | ||||
3523 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Werner, Anton Alexander von 1843 Frankfurt a.d.O. - 1915 Berlin. Study of two soldiers. Pencil on bluish laid paper. Monogrammed lower middle. ... | ||||
3524 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Werner, Anton Alexander von 1843 Frankfurt a.d.O. - 1915 Berlin. Standing officer. Pencil and coloured pencil, heightened with opaque white, on ... | ||||
3525 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Werner, Anton Alexander von 1843 Frankfurt a.d.O. - 1915 Berlin. Greeting soldier. Pencil on brownish wove paper. Monogrammed lower middle and ... | ||||
3526 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Werner, Anton Alexander von 1843 Frankfurt a.d.O. - 1915 Berlin. «Die Sarg Aufbahrung Kaiser Wilhelm I. (Emperor Wilhelm I lying in state)». ... | ||||
3527 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Werner, Anton Alexander von 1843 Frankfurt a.d.O. - 1915 Berlin. Wilhelm II, German Emperor and King of Prussia. Pencil and coloured pencil, ... | ||||
3528 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Werner, Anton Alexander von 1843 Frankfurt a.d.O. - 1915 Berlin. Study of a horse. Pencil on wove paper. Monogrammed middle left and dated ... | ||||
3529 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Werner, Anton Alexander von 1843 Frankfurt a.d.O. - 1915 Berlin. «Wartburg». Pencil on wove paper, with tear-off edge at the right margin. ... | ||||
3530 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Werner, Anton Alexander von 1843 Frankfurt a.d.O. - 1915 Berlin. Study of three gentlemen with top hat. Pencil, heightened with opaque white, ... | ||||
3531 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Werner, Anton Alexander von 1843 Frankfurt a.d.O. - 1915 Berlin. Three gentlemen in tailcoats. Pencil on brownish wove paper, with tear-off ... |
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