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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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Richter, Gerhard
Born 1932 Dresden, lives and works in Cologne.
«Panorama».
Edited by Mark Godfrey, Nicholas Serota and Dorothée Brill at Tate Publishing, London. Signed on endpaper by Gerhard Richter. In addition an offset «Abstraktes Bild (abstract picture)» by Gerhard Richter on coated paper, mounted on strong paper. Signed lower middle. Verso inscribed by a different hand «Persönlich erhalten bei der Pressekonferenz am 11.2.05 in Düsseldorf (personally received at the press conference on 11.2.05 in Düsseldorf)». Catalogue with slight signs of use. Offset isolated with small creases.
H 29,5, W 25,5 cm (book),
H 21,1, W 16,7 cm (Offset, sheet).
The exhibition «Panorama» was shown as a collaboration from October 2011 to September 2012 at the Tate Modern, London, the Nationalgalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin and the Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris.
At a press conference in February 2005 on the occasion of the exhibition «Bedeutende Retrospektive im K20» of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, the offset - after a painting by Richter with the same title from
Provenance: private collection Baden-Württemberg. 
Richter, Gerhard
Geb. 1932 Dresden, lebt und arbeitet in Köln.
«Panorama».
Herausgegeben von Mark Godfrey, Nicholas Serota und Dorothée Brill bei Tate Publishing, London. Auf Vorsatzblatt sign. von Gerhard Richter. Beigegeben ein Offset «Abstraktes Bild» von Gerhard Richter auf gestrichenem Papier, auf festem Papier montiert. Mitte u. sign. Verso von fremder Hand bez. «Persönlich erhalten bei der Pressekonferenz am 11.2.05 in Düsseldorf». Katalog mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren. Offset vereinzelt mit kl. Knicken.
H. 29,5,
H. 21,1,
Die Ausstellung «Panorama» wurde als Kollaboration von Oktober 2011 bis September 2012 in der Tate Modern, London, der Nationalgalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin und dem Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris, gezeigt.
Bei einer Pressekonferenz anlässlich der Ausstellung «Bedeutende Retrospektive im K20» der Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf im Februar 2005 wurde der Offset – nach einem Gemälde Richters mit gleichem Titel aus dem Jahr
Provenienz: Privatsammlung Baden-Württemberg.