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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1843 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Valck, G. Kupferstecher 17./ Kolorierter Kupferstich. «Royaume de Danemark». Landkarte von Dänemark. In ... | ||||
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2217 (Autumn Auction Hutter, F.X. Kupferstecher 18./ Kolorierter Kupferstich. Herausgegeben von Johann Walch. «Polen nach seiner ... | ||||
2232 (Autumn Auction Ogerio, Matheo Kupferstecher 16./ Kolorierter Kupferstich. Cenomanorum Galliae regionis, typus, Britaniae et ... | ||||
2237 (Autumn Auction Rosmaesler, (?) Kupferstecher Anfang Kolorierter Kupferstich. Nach einer Zeichnung von A.F. Minkler 1799. ... | starting price: 100,- EUR | |||
2238 (Autumn Auction Schneider, R.A. Kupferstecher Kolorierter Kupferstich. Nach Johann Baptista Homann. Episcopatus Hildesiensis. ... | ||||
2240 (Autumn Auction Stridbeck, J. Kupferstecher Kupferstich. Ansicht einer Schlossanlage mit Kirche St. Wenzel. Darüber drei ... | starting price: 200,- EUR | |||
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2217 (Spring Sale Alber, I.E. Kupferstecher Kolorierter Kupferstich. Herausgegeben von Homannsche Erben, Nürnberg. ... | ||||
2221 (Spring Sale Demarteau, (?) Kupferstecher Kolorierter Kupferstich. «Le Soir». In ovalem Bildfeld junge Schäferin mit ... | starting price: 200,- EUR | |||
2223 (Spring Sale Dussy, F. Französischer Kupferstecher um 1800. Kolorierter Kupferstich. «Turquie d'Asie, Arabie, Perse, Tartarie ... | ||||
2226 (Spring Sale Freudenberger, Sigmund 1745 Bern - 1801 ebd. Kolorierter Kupferstich. «Les Chanteuses du Mois de May». Vor einem Bauernhaus stehende ... | starting price: 200,- EUR | |||
2228 (Spring Sale Gmelin, Wilhelm Friedrich Um 1745/60 Badenweiler - 1820 Rom. Kupferstich. «Die Grotte des Neptuns mit den Tempeln der Vesta und Sibylle in ... | ||||
2229 (Spring Sale Gmelin, Wilhelm Friedrich Um 1745/60 Badenweiler - 1820 Rom. Kupferstich. «Der Wasserfall des Velino bey Terni». Sommerliche Landschaft mit ... | ||||
2231 (Spring Sale Hackert, Georg 1755 Prenzlau - 1805 Florenz. Kupferstich. Nach Jacob Philipp Hackert 1779. Idyllische Flusslandschaft mit ... | ||||
2238 (Spring Sale Legrand, Augustin Claude Simon 1765 Paris - nach 1815 ebd. Sechs kolorierte Farbradierungen. Nach Michel Lambert. Illustrationen der beliebten ... | starting price: 1700,- EUR | |||
2239 (Spring Sale Lens, Bernhard Englischer Kupferstecher 17./ Kolorierter Kupferstich. «A General View of the Flags which most ... | ||||
2247 (Spring Sale Scheurmann, Joh. Jakob 1770 Bern - 1844 Aarau. Kolorierter Kupferstich. «Der Canton Ticino». Nach einer Zeichnung von Heinrich Keller, ... | ||||
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2618 (Autumn Sale Basan, Pierre François 1723 Paris - 1797 ebd. Kupferstich. Nach A. van der Heyden und J. Lingelbach. «Canal près de Delft». Ländliche ... | ||||
2619 (Autumn Sale Basan, Pierre François 1723 Paris - 1797 ebd. Kupferstich. Nach Carel van Falens. «Retour de Campagne». Weite Landschaft mit vom Feldzug ... | ||||
2627 (Autumn Sale Glot, C.B. Französischer Kupferstecher und Kartograph 2. Hälfte Kupferstich/Lw. Faltkarte der Stadt Genf ... | ||||
2629 (Autumn Sale Harris, John Englischer Kupferstecher Kolorierte Aquatintaradierungen. Paar Porträts von Siegerpferden. ... | ||||
2640 (Autumn Sale Mason, J. S. Englischer Kupferstecher Kupferstich. Nach William Woollett. Ansicht des Königlichen Gartens ... | ||||
2652 (Autumn Sale Riepenhausen, (?) Kupferstecher Kupferstich. Interieurszene nach William Hogarth. Galante Gesellschaft mit ... | ||||
2653 (Autumn Sale Riepenhausen, (?) Kupferstecher Kupferstich. Genreszene nach William Hogarth. Sich in einer Scheune umkleidende ... | ||||
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2300 (Spring Sale Quéverdo, (?) Französischer Kupferstecher Kupferstich, partiell koloriert. Nach C.L. Chastelet. Ansicht des ... | ||||
2304 (Spring Sale Simon, J.P. Französischer Kupferstecher 1. Hälfte Zwei Lithographien. Nach Landon. «Le repos de Virginie» ... | ||||
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2361 (Winter Sale Aubert Kupferstecher Kupferstich. «Promenade sur les remparts - In munimenta deambulatio». Nach ... | ||||
2362 (Winter Sale Bertuch, C. Kupferstecher 18./ Radierung. Der Marktschreier. Nach Rembrandt van Rijn. U.l. bez., sowie r. ... | ||||
2364 (Winter Sale Cassini, Giovanni Maria Zeichner und Kupferstecher in Rom Ende Kupferstich. «Veduta del Tempio di Vesta». Ansicht des ... | ||||
2367 (Winter Sale Duncker Kupferstecher 18./ Acht Kupferstiche. «Livre de different Sujets de Figures et Animaux par H. ... | ||||
2380 (Winter Sale Leopold, Josef Friedrich 1668 Augsburg - 1726 ebd. Kupferstich. Blick auf die befestigte Stadt Danzig. Im Vordergrund bäuerliches Leben. In ... |
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