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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 24.–25.11.2023
Schumacher, Emil
1912 Hagen - 1999 San José/Ibiza.
«G-18/1979».
Mixed media with gouache, India ink and sand on brown primed packing paper. Signed lower right and dated (19)79.
H 62,5,
This work was created during Emil Schumacher's time on Ibiza.
«My love belongs to paper, as it offers itself in its many forms: from precious handmade paper to cheap wrapping paper, from the printed paper of the newspaper to ‹Macaroni Latino› on old handmade paper. I treat it disrespectfully, crumple it, tear it, only to put it back together again. There are injuries, scars - that's good, that's part of it. I imprint it on the further process. In this way, or in a similar way, the paper becomes compliant with me and helps me to move on.» Emil Schumacher, cited in: Galerie Boisserée (Ed.), Emil Schumacher, Radierungen und Arbeiten auf Papier, Cologne 2009, w/o p.
Authentication: We would like to thank Mr Rouven Lotz, Emil Schumacher Museum, Hagen, for the authentication via
Provenance: purchased at Galerie Dr. Luise Krohn, Badenweiler, in 1986; since then private collection Müllheim in the Markgräflerland.
Exhibition: Emil Schumacher, Bilder, Gouaches, Zeichnungen, Mülheim, Galerien Merten Slominsky, Lausanne, Galerie Alice Pauli, Zurich, Galerie Istvàn Schlégl, Febuary 1980 until January 1981; Emil Schumacher, Siegen, Städtische Galerie Haus Seel, 28.06.1982 - 01.08.1982.
Literature: Galerie Merten Slominsky (Ed.), Emil Schumacher, Bilder, Gouaches, Zeichnungen, Mülheim 1980,
Catalogue raisonné: The work is documented in the catalogue of the works by Dr. Ulrich Schumacher, Emil Schumacher Stiftung, under the number 0/1.939.
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