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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Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3285 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Feldberg, oberes Wiesental (Feldberg, upper Wiesental)». Oil ... | ||||
3286 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Feldberg, Der Silberberg (Feldberg, the silver ... | starting price: 850,- EUR | |||
3287 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Bei der Todtnauer Hütte (near the refuge of Todtnau)». Oil ... | ||||
Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3203 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Wintermorgen bei Titisee - Rauhreif (winter morning near ... | starting price: 2500,- EUR | |||
3204 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Todtnauer Hütte». View of the Herzogenhorn. Circa 1920. ... | ||||
3205 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Feldberg, Stübenwasen». Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. ... | ||||
3206 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Alpensicht (a.d. Feldberg) (alpine view from the ... | ||||
3207 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Heller Morgen auf dem Feldberg (bright morning on the ... | starting price: 2200,- EUR | |||
3208 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 Summer in the Black Forest. Oil on cardboard. Unsign. Verso ... | ||||
3209 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Am Häuslebauer. Feldberg». Oil on canvas. Monogrammed ... | ||||
3210 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Am Feldberg». Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Verso ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3466 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Winterlandschaft mit Hof und Kapelle (winter landscape with ... | ||||
3467a (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Im Urachtal (in Urach valley)». Oil on cardboard. Signed lower ... | ||||
3467 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 Windswept beech trees at Schauinsland. Oil on canvas, relined. ... | ||||
3468 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Im Wiesengrund (in Wiesengrund)». Oil on cardboard. Signed ... | ||||
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 ... | ||||
3471 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Pfingsten am Hochrhein (Whitsun at the High Rhine)». Oil on ... | ||||
Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
2115 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Riggenbächle bei Bernau (brook Riggenbächle near Bernau)». Oil ... | ||||
2116 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 View from Feldberg over Wiesental valley in autumn. Oil on ... | ||||
2117 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 View of Grunern on a spring day, ultimate snow on the Belchen. ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
4352 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 Stream water with birch trees. Oil on canvas. Signed lower ... | ||||
4353 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 View on an autumn coloured mountain landscape at the Black ... | ||||
4354 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 View from the Feldberg. Oil on structured cardboard, mounted on ... | ||||
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4494 (Autumn Auctions Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Vorfrühling an der Brugga (early spring at the Brugga)». Oil on ... | ||||
4495 (Autumn Auctions Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Kappel im Tal (Kappel in the valley)». Oil on canvas. Signed ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
5498 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 Freiburg i.Br. View across Freiburg. Oil on cardboard. Signed lower right. Verso inscribed ... | ||||
Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
4669 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 Freiburg i.Br. E «Bernauer Landschaft (landscape of Bernau)». Oil on panel. Signed lower ... | ||||
Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
1915 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 Freiburg i.Br. Öl/Karton. «Apfelblüte». Blick auf ein sonniges Tal mit Bachlauf, sattgrünen ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 26.–28.11.2009 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
2178 (Autumn Auctions 26.–28.11.2009) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 Freiburg i.Br. Aquarell/Papier. «Schönberg am Belchen». Blick in ein frühlingshaftes Tal mit ... |
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