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. | 1969 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Kolorierte Radierung. «Präg». Bauernhäuser in einem bewaldeten Tal bei Regen. In der ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1970 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Fünf Radierungen und eine Lithographie. Eines in Zusammenarbeit mit Ettore Cosomati. ... | |||
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2019 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Konvolut Bücher von und über Hans Thoma 12-tlg. Zwei Bücher Im Herbste des Lebens von Hans Thoma, München 1908. Zwei Bücher Hans Thoma, Bilder und ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2344 (Autumn Auction Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. «Idyll I (Kinderlied I) mit zwei Bäumchen». Auf einer Wiese sitzendes ... | starting price: 100,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2345 (Autumn Auction Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. «Amor auf einem Delphin (Lebensfahrt I)». Geflügelter Amor, auf dem Rücken ... | starting price: 100,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2346 (Autumn Auction Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. «Die Griffelkunst in ihren ersten Anfängen. Mitgliedkarte des Karlsruher ... | |||
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1875 (Spring Sale Firnrohr, Emil 1881 Karlsruhe - 1968 ebd. Öl/Holz. Halbfigurenbildnis eines sitzenden eleganten Herrn im Dreiviertelporträt nach ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2212 (Spring Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Aquarellierte Bleistiftzeichnung. Triberger Wasserfall im badischen Schwarzwald. U.l. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2213 (Spring Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Tuschfederzeichnung. Am Strand, von der aufschäumenden Meeresgischt umspült, fünf ... | starting price: 2500,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2214 (Spring Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Öl/Holz. Drei am Strand stehende mädchenhafte Sirenen, singend und einem Segelboot ... | starting price: 14000,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2215 (Spring Sale Trübner, Wilhelm 1851 Heidelberg - 1917 Karlsruhe. Öl/Lw. Blick auf See in sommerlicher Landschaft. U.r. sign. und 1912 dat. Min. ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2346 (Spring Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. «Sirenen». Fünf Sirenen, am Meeresstrand stehend und singend, eine von ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2347 (Spring Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. «Berggreis». Halbfigurenbildnis eines alten Mannes mit Stock vor ... | starting price: 100,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2348 (Spring Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. «Gitarrespieler im Gehäuse». In polygonalem Käfig sitzender kleiner Junge ... | starting price: 100,- EUR | ||
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2485 (Autumn Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Kohlezeichnung, weiß gehöht. Im Dreiviertelprofil nach rechts Brustbildnis eines ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2774 (Autumn Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. 26 Lithographien. «Immerwährender Bilderkalender». Zwölf Monatsblätter mit Namenstag ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2775 (Autumn Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. «Parzifal». Auf einem Schimmel sitzender Reiter. Im Hintergrund rechts ein ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2776 (Autumn Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. «Der Erzähler». Im Schein des Mondes gestikulierender Erzähler mit ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2777 (Autumn Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. «Selbstbildnis IV». Brustporträt mit langem weißem Bart und Mantel. In der ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2778 (Autumn Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. «Ziegenhirten (Mutterslehn II)». Vor einem Schwarzwaldgehöft Junge bei ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2779 (Autumn Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. «Bernaubächlein». Blick über das Bernauer Hochtal, im Mittelgrund zwischen ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2780 (Autumn Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. «Idyll I (Kinderlied I)». Auf einer Wiese mit zwei schlanken Bäumen Kind ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2781 (Autumn Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. «Frauenbildnis mit Nelke (Marie)». Porträt einer Frau mit geflochtenem ... | starting price: 100,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2782 (Autumn Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. «Sägemühle (Falkau)». Mächtige Tanne auf Anhöhe im Feldberggebiet, Blick ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2783 (Autumn Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. «Bernauer Feldwege». Ansicht des Bernauer Hochtals, im Vordergrund teils ... | |||
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2218 (Spring Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Bleistiftzeichnung. Skizzenhaftes Herrenporträt im Profil nach rechts. Zeichenraster. ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | |||
2219 (Spring Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Kohlezeichnung, weiß gehöht. Im Dreiviertelprofil nach rechts Brustbildnis eines ... | starting price: 800,- EUR | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2409 (Spring Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. «Wundervögel III». Fünf Kraniche über Hügellandschaft fliegend. In der ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2410 (Spring Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. Hügelige Landschaft mit kleinem, von Bäumen umgebenem Bachlauf. In der ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2411 (Spring Sale Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. «Wonne des Fliegens IV». Über Felder kreisende Störche. In der Platte u.r. ... |
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