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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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Mense, Carlo
1886 Rheine/Westfalen - 1965 Königswinter.
«Aktbild in Landschaft». Öl/Hartfaser. Eine lasziv ausgestreckte unbekleidete Frau, umrankt von Sträuchern, vor dem Hintergrund einer Bergkette mit See und leuchtend blauem Himmel. U.l. sign. Verso sign., bet. und (19)47 - 48 dat. Min. Retuschen.
Carlo Mense, u.a. ein Schüler von Peter Janssen an der Düsseldorfer Akademie und Lovis Corinth in Berlin, war schon 1912 mit Werken in der legendären Sonderbund-Ausstellung in Köln sowie in Ausstellungen zum Rheinischen Expressionismus und zur Neuen Sachlichkeit vertreten. Seit 1918/19 gehörte Mense der Künstlervereinigung «Das Junge Rheinland» an. 1925 übernahm er seine Professur an der Staatlichen Akademie für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe in Breslau.
In Menses Œuvre finden sich zahlreiche Aktdarstellungen, wie auch auf dem vorliegenden Gemälde, bei welchem es sich laut Dr. Klara Drenker-Nagels vermutlich um eine Darstellung seiner Frau Vera handelt.
Gutachten: Dr. Klara Drenker-Nagels, Bonn, 09.05.2010.
Provenienz: Vera Mense, Gattin des Künstlers; deren Erben; Süddeutsche Privatsammlung.
Ausstellungen: Carlo Mense. Gemälde - Zeichnung - Graphik, Museum Städtische Kunstsammlungen Bonn, Bonn, 01.09. - 10.10.1971; Carlo Mense. Gemälde - Zeichnungen - Graphik, Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, München, 28.09. - 28.10. 1972.
Literatur: Carlo Mense. Gemälde - Zeichnung - Graphik, 01.09. - 10.10.1971 Museum Städtische Kunstsammlungen Bonn, Bonn 1971; Carlo Mense. Gemälde - Zeichnungen - Graphik, 28.09. - 28.10. 1972 Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, München 1972.
«Aktbild in Landschaft (nude in landscape). Oil on masonite. Signed lower left. Verso signed, titled and dated (19)47 - 48. Minor retouching. Expert report: Dr. Klara Drenker-Nagels, Bonn, 09.05.2010. Provenance: Vera Mense, artist´s wife; heirs; Private collection South Germany. Exhibitions: Carlo Mense. Gemälde - Zeichnung - Graphik, Museum Städtische Kunstsammlungen Bonn, Bonn, 01.09. - 10.10.1971; Carlo Mense. Gemälde - Zeichnungen - Graphik, Gallery Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 28.09. - 28.10. 1972. Literature: Carlo Mense. Gemälde - Zeichnung - Graphik, 01.09. - 10.10.1971 Museum Städtische Kunstsammlungen Bonn, Bonn 1971; Carlo Mense. Gemälde - Zeichnungen - Graphik, 28.09. - 28.10. 1972 Gallery Wolfgang Ketterer, München 1972.