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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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Reyn, Jan van de
1610 Dunkerque - 1678 ebd.
Öl/Lw., doubl. Vor dunklem Fond Brustbildnis des Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, mit Hut im Dreiviertelprofil nach rechts. Unsign. Farbabsplitterungen und partielle Retuschen. H. 49,
Dieses Bildnis war bis vor wenigen Jahren Rembrandt van Rijn zugeschrieben und galt als Selbstbildnis des Künstlers. Es wurde erst kürzlich als Werk Jan van de Reyns identifiziert.
Expertise von Prof. Dr. Heinz Rudolph, Universität Leuven, vom 15. Mai 1999 liegt in Kopie vor.
Auszug aus dem Gutachten: «[...] das von Ihnen am 7. Mai 1999 vorgestellte Ölgemälde auf Leinwand, in den Massen [sic!] 48 x 42 cm leinwanddoubliert, mit Oberflächenschäden, habe ich inzwischen untersucht und begutachtet.
Nach meinem Urteil handelt es sich dabei um ein Portrait des niederländischen Malers Rembrandt, welches ich dem flämischen Maler JAN VAN DE REYN, 1610 - 1678 zuschreibe.
Das Gemälde ist nach microanalytischen Untersuchungen von Farbmaterial und Leinwandresten in die Mitte des 17. Jhdt. einzuordnen, um 1665, es zeigt Rembrandt in seinen letzten Lebensjahren.
JAN VAN DE REYN war Schüler und Gehilfe des bedeutenden Malers A. van Dyck und bekannt für Portraitmalerei im Auftrag europäischer Adelsfamilien.
Er portraitierte auch bekannte Malerprominenz seiner Zeit, wie z.B. Rubens, Rembrandt und seinen Lehrer, van Dyck.
Gut vertreten ist JAN VAN DE REYN in europäischen Museen. [...]»
Prov.: Ehemals Herzog Antoine III. de Gramont, Paris, danach Comte de Gramant, Dünkirchen, danach Prinzessin von Orléans-Braganza, danach Baron Thibaut d'Orléans, Paris, danach Baronin Ida von Ende, Wiesbaden, danach Freifrau von Stüttgen, zuletzt Sammlung Mehren-Hitchcock, St. Antonio, Texas.
Lit.: AKL, Thieme-Becker.