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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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Winterauktionen 25.–26.11.2022
Hundertwasser, Friedensreich
1928 Vienna - 2000 on the Queen Elizabeth II off New Zealand.
«Regentag - Look at it on a rainy day».
1971/72. Portfolio consisting of 10 colour serigraphs with metal embossing, some with varnish and additional glass dust, on various papers. Sheet 2 «Street of Survivors» (Fürst HWG 45) signed by hand, numbered twice 79/300 and 782/3000 as well as two red Japanese inkan stamps. The other sheets all signed in the print, dated, numbered 782/3000, inscribed several times, each with three Japanese inkan stamps, some of them embossed, as well as with the work number. Some sheets titled. Each with the publisher's dry stamp. Loose sheets in original wooden case with colour serigraph cover illustration and metal embossing as well as embossed index on the inside cover. Signed «Friedensreich» on the inside cover and numbered 782/3000.
H 36,5
H 47,5
Complete portfolio from a total edition of 3000 numbered copies. Consisting of «Eyebalance Number Five», «Street for Survivors», «It Hurts to Wait with Love if Love is Somewhere Else», «Exodus into Space», «A Rainy Day on the Regentag», «Columbus Rainy Day in India», «Irinaland over the Balkans», «Regentag on Waves of Love», «The Houses are Hanging Underneath the Meadows» and «Crusade of the Crossroads». Published by Ars Viva, Zürich. Printed by Dietz Offizin, Lengmoos/Bavaria.
«At the beginning of the 1970s, the name ‹Regentag (rainy day)› played a special role. When Hundertwasser named his ship ‹Regentag›, he also gave himself this name. In
Hundertwasser also worked with the German art printer Günter Dietz in Lengmoos/Bavaria during this time, in whose studio the ten serigraph prints of the portfolio ‹Look at it on a Rainy Day› were created. The complicated printing process with a multitude of colour separations, phosphorescent colours or reflecting glass dust layers led to increased luminosity and delightful colour effects.» from: https://hundertwasser.com/news_detail?&news_id=1652286518565.
Catalogue raisonné: Fürst HWG 44 - 53; Koschatzky 44 - 53.
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