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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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Schork, Hans
Born 1935 Aschaffenburg, lives and works in Munich and Vilsbiburg.
«Gafsa 1973». Light kinetic object.
Object box of black acrylic glass, fluorescent tube and electric motor, mounted on wood (back board). Verso signed, dated 1986, titled and numbered 3/20. Electrified. Object box with slight signs of use.
H 57,5,
«Building on different forerunners, [...] in the 1950s and 60s, a real light-kinetic movement of some broad impact could unfold. The role played by the Düsseldorf-based group ZERO can hardly be overestimated [...]. The slogans were "light, dynamics, vibration, cosmos". [...] Hans Schork's light art, with which he began at the end of the 1960s, is thus an impression of the times' spirit. [...] But Schork found the way to his art through his profession as a surveying technician. [...] He created a seemingly never-ending continuum using different patterns in the front and turntable. [...] Caution, restraint and concentration are the essential characteristics of Hans Schork's light objects.» from: Henrike Holsing, Hans Schorks Lichtobjekte - Der Kosmos im Kasten, Aschaffenburg, 2010/11.
Provenance: med art-collection of the HUG-group, 
Schork, Hans
Geb. 1935 Aschaffenburg, lebt und arbeitet in München und Vilsbiburg.
«Gafsa 1973». Lichtkinetisches Objekt.
Objektkasten aus schwarzem Acrylglas, Leuchtstoffröhre und Elektromotor, auf Holz (Rückwand) montiert. Verso sign., 1986 dat., bet. und 3/20 num. Elektrifiziert. Objektkasten mit leichten Handhabungsspuren.
H. 57,5,
«Auf unterschiedlichen Vorläufern aufbauend, konnte sich [...] in den 1950er und 60er Jahren eine regelrechte lichtkinetische Bewegung von einiger Breitenwirkung entfalten. Eine kaum zu überschätzende Rolle spielte dabei die Düsseldorfer Gruppe ZERO [...]. Schlagworte waren "Licht, Dynamik, Vibration, Kosmos". [...] Hans Schorks Ende der 1960er Jahre einsetzende Lichtkunst ist also Eindruck eines Zeitgeistes. [...] Den Weg zu seiner eigenen Kunst aber fand Schork durch seinen Beruf als Vermessungstechniker. [...] Durch unterschiedliche Muster in Front- und Drehscheibe erzeugte er ein scheinbar nie endendes Kontinuum. [...] Behutsamkeit, Zurückhaltung und Konzentration gehören zu den wesentlichen Merkmalen von Hans Schorks Lichtobjekten.» aus: Henrike Holsing, Hans Schorks Lichtobjekte - Der Kosmos im Kasten, Aschaffenburg, 2010/11.
Provenienz: med art-Sammlung der HUG-Gruppe,