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. | 2022 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Miró, Joan 1893 Barcelona - 1983 Palma de Mallorca. «Joan Miró, der Lithograph». Author Fernand Mourlot. Vols. I - V. ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2045 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Alechinsky, Pierre Born 1927 Brussels, lives and works in Bougival and Labosse. «Passe-Muraille». Colour lithograph on Arches wove ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2048 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Antes, Horst Born 1936 Heppenheim, lives and works in Karlsruhe, Castellina and Berlin. «Gefleckte Figur mit Reif, kleine Figur ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2049 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Antes, Horst Born 1936 Heppenheim, lives and works in Karlsruhe, Castellina and Berlin. Untitled from «Symbiosion». 1965. ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2057 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Beuys, Joseph 1921 Krefeld - 1986 Düsseldorf. «:aus dem Leben der Bienen (from the life of the bees)». 1978. Colour ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2063 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Brodwolf, Jürgen Born 1932 Dübendorf, lives and works in Kandern. Medallion. Mixed media with acrylic, oil and relief structure ... | starting price: 4000,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2073 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Dorazio, Piero 1927 Rome - 2005 Perugia. «Amici Colori (Farben als Freunde)». 2002. Portfolio consisting of 15 colour ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2085 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Hartung, Hans 1904 Leipzig - 1989 Antibes. Untitled. Composition in green, yellow and blue. Colour lithograph on wove paper. ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2086 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Hartung, Hans 1904 Leipzig - 1989 Antibes. «L 83». Black-White. 1958/62. Lithograph on BFK Rives wove paper (watermark). ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2090 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Vienna - 2000 on the Queen Elizabeth II off New Zealand. «10002 nights Homo Humus come va how do you do». ... | starting price: 1500,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2103 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Lanskoy, André Moscow Collection of 25 sheets from «Nicolai Gogol: Journal d'un Fou». 1976. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2104 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Lanskoy, André Moscow Collection of seven sheets from «Nicolai Gogol: Journal d'un Fou». 1976. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2115 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) McLean, Bruce Born 1944 Glasgow, lives and works in London. Untitled (yellow) from «good nude work». 1980/84. Colour ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2116 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) McLean, Bruce Born 1944 Glasgow, lives and works in London. Untitled (red) from «good nude work». 1980/84. Colour serigraph ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2138 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Ramos, Mel 1935 Sacramento - 2018 Oakland. «Hav-a-Havana -6 (Cohiba 2)». 2005. Lithograph in 21 colours on light cardboard. ... | |||
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3148 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Kalliope music box No. 50 G Kalliope Musikwerke AG, Leipzig around 1900. Wood, iron and brass. Four feet, rectangular case, hinged lid with ... | ||||
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3152 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Fan with courtly scene France around 1900. Lithograph on paper, hand-coloured and partially gilt, as well as horn, openworked and partially ... | starting price: 300,- EUR | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2003 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Bissier, Julius 1893 Untitled from «Gefäße (vessels)». 1963. Lithograph on Japon laid ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2006 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Chagall, Marc 1887 Witebsk - 1985 Saint-Paul-de-Vence. «Nice, Soleil, Fleurs». The Bay of Angels. 1962. Lithograph in colours ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2022 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Grosz, George 1893 Berlin - 1959 ibid. «Verlobung (engagement)» from «Ecce Homo». 1922/23. Offset lithograph on wove paper. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2027 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Hofer, Karl 1878 Karlsruhe - 1955 Berlin. «Drei Mädchen (three girls)» from «Zenana». 1923. Photolithograph on laid paper. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2054 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Miró, Joan 1893 Barcelona - 1983 Palma de Mallorca. Untitled from «Handmade proverbs (Ma de proverbis)». 1970. Lithograph ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2056 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Mueller, Otto 1874 Liebau - 1930 Obernigk. «Otto Mueller zum hundertsten Geburtstag. Das graphische Gesamtwerk». Holzschnitte, ... |
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