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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0048 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Poertzel, Otto 1876 Scheibe - 1963 Coburg. Bronze, patiniert und goldfarben bemalt, Elfenbein sowie Onyx. «Butterfly Dancer». Auf ... | ||||
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0421 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Walzenkrug Wohl Erfurt um 1737. Sandfarbener Scherben, glasiert und polychrom bemalt, sowie Zinn. Zylindrischer Korpus mit ... | ||||
0423 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Walzenkrug Berlin um 1710. Sandfarbener Scherben, glasiert und polychrom bemalt, sowie Zinn. Zylindrischer Korpus mit Ohrenhenkel ... | starting price: 1600,- EUR | |||
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0535 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Glasbild Schweiz Anfang | ||||
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1188 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Seltene Meißen-Pendule mit Jahreszeitenallegorien Meißen | starting price: 14000,- EUR | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2283 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Alt, Otmar Geb. 1940 Wernigerode/Harz. Zinkographie, geprägt. Auf orangefarbenem Fond zwei polychrome figürliche Gestalten, ... | |||
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1460 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Alt, Jakob 1789 Frankfurt a.M. - 1872 Wien. Öl/Lw. Bucht von Neapel. Idyllischer Blick auf das sommerliche Neapel mit dem ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 1994 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Zehn Plakate der Olympischen Spiele München 1972 Siebdrucke. U.a. von Otmar Alt, Horst Antes, Pietro Dorazio, Hans Hartung, Charles Lapicque, Jan Lenica, Marino ... | |||
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1669 (Autumn Auction Graff, Anton 1736 Winterthur - 1813 Dresden. Öl/Lw., doubl. Vor Landschaft Halbfigurenbildnis im Dreiviertelprofil nach links ... | starting price: 22000,- EUR | |||
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1454 (Spring Sale Bidyogo-Maske Bissagos-Inseln, Guinea-Bissau. Holz, geschnitzt, dunkel patiniert und polychrom bemalt, sowie grünes Glas. ... | ||||
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1815 (Spring Sale Alt, R. von Genremaler Öl/Hartfaser. An einem Tisch sitzender Bauer mit dunklem breitkrempigem Hut, mit ... | ||||
2081 (Spring Sale Spitzweg, Carl 1808 München - 1885 ebd. Öl/Lw. «Der Kraxenträger in der Schlucht». In halb lichtbeschienener und halb ... | ||||
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2465 (Autumn Sale Spitzweg, Carl 1808 München - 1885 ebd. Öl/Holz. «Der beleibte Kornbauer von Uffing». An einem Feldweg nahe einem von Mohn- und ... | ||||
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0594 (Spring Sale Seltener Becher Russland Mitte | ||||
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1991 (Spring Sale Avont, Peeter van attr. Vor 1600 Mechelen - 1652 Antwerpen. Öl/Kupfer. In idyllischer Landschaft die rastende Heilige Familie, von ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 0092 (Winter Sale Chiparus - zurückgezogen, Demeter H. 1886 Dorohoi - 1947 Paris. Elfenbein, geschnitzt, Bronze, bemalt, und Marmor. «Briséis». Auf quaderförmig ... | |||
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1630 (Winter Sale Kugelknauf Frankreich Ende | starting price: 70,- EUR | |||
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1702 (Autumn Sale Alt, Jakob attr. 1789 Frankfurt a.M. - 1872 Wien. Gouache. «Winkelriedhaus in Stans.». Mann und kleiner Junge, zusammengebundenes ... | ||||
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