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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.

Carl Spitzweg

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2050
Winterauktionen 19.–20.11.2021
Malskat, Lothar
1913 Königsberg - 1988 Lübeck.
«Nach dem Auftritt (after the show)».
Oil on plywood. Monogrammed lower middle and badly legible inscribed «L MA [...]». Verso numbered probably by a different hand «61» and titled on a label.
H 90, W 60 cm (support). Original frame.
Initially, Lothar Malskat gained fame as an art forger: in the Schleswig Cathedral and the St. Mary's Church in Lübeck, he created large picture cycles in the early Gothic style, that were celebrated as successful restorations of historical paintings. His forgeries only came to light in 1952 when the artist confessed to forgery. In the process, he also admitted to forging works by renowned artists such as Rembrandt, Picasso and Chagall, thus setting in motion what was then the largest art forgery scandal in the Federal Republic of Germany. As expected, the original and thus also signed or monogrammed works by Malskat stand out for their wide stylistic range.
Provenance: private collection Hamburg and Markgräflerland.

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