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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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Zach, Bruno
«The Riding Crop (la Cravache)». Polished and green patinated bronze. Signed to base «Bruno Zach» and foundry mark «K» in rectangle.
Bruno Zach studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, among his professors were Hans Bitterlich and Josef Müller. Furthermore he worked at local foundries and expanded his knowledge in arts and crafts. Zach is most famous for his erotic sculptures.
Authentication: confirmation of authenticity by Dr. Frank Matthias Kammel, head of department for sculpture until 1800 at Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, and Florian Eitle-Böhler, former head of department for European Sculpture and Works of Art at Sotheby's, New York, in the TV show «Kunst und Krempel», Bayerischer Rundfunk, 21.07.2012.
Literature: Victor Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture, Chryselephantine statuettes of the twenties and thirties, London/New York 1975, ill. 
Schytomyr
«The Riding Crop (la Cravache)». Bronze, poliert und grün patiniert. Stehende Dame mit geschlossenen Augen, das Kinn leicht erhoben, hinter ihrem Rücken eine Reitgerte haltend. Am Sockel sign. «Bruno Zach» und Gießerstempel «K» im Rechteck.
H. 80,5,
Bruno Zach studierte in Wien an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste unter anderem bei Hans Bitterlich und Josef Müller. Außerdem arbeitete er in verschiedenen Gießereien Wiens und erweiterte seine kunsthandwerklichen Fähigkeiten. Bekannt ist er besonders für seine erotisch aufgeladenen Skulpturen.
Authentifizierung: Bestätigung der Authentizität durch Herrn Dr. Frank Matthias Kammel, Leiter der Sammlungen Skulptur
Literatur: Victor Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture, Chryselephantine statuettes of the twenties and thirties, London/New York 1975, Abb. S. 69; Victor Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture, London/New York 1992, Abb. S. 231; Bryan Catley, Art Deco and other Figures, Woodbridge 1978, Abb.