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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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1949
Frühjahrsauktionen 10.–12.06.2010
Kobell, Wilhelm von
1766 Mannheim - 1853 München.
Öl/Lw., doubl. Die Hasenjagd. Vor einem Waldrand auf einer Landstraße zwei Reiter mit Jagdhunden bei der Verfolgung eines Hasen. Unsign.
Dokumentation: Prof. Dr. Siegfried Wichmann, Starnberg, 20.06.2001.
Das Gemälde zeigt im Vordergrund den Reichsfürsten Karl August von Bretzenheim (1769 - 1833), Sohn des pfälzischen Kurfürsten Karl Theodor, in Begleitung seines Stallmeisters. Kobell hatte sich zu der Komposition von englischen Vorlagen anregen lassen, wo es unter Personen von Stande Mode geworden war, sich hoch zu Ross porträtieren zu lassen. Komposition und Maltechnik des Bildes lassen auf eine Entstehungszeit um 1788/89 schließen. Es erweist sich damit als Vorlage einer nur wenig später entstandenen Fassung, die sich heute in der Sammlung Georg Schäfer in Schweinfurt befindet.
Kobell gelingt ein fulminantes Bild von großer Dramatik, Bewegungsreichtum und hervorragender Sattel- und Pferdekenntnis, eine meisterhafte Darstellung der Spannung und der Dynamik des Moments, unmittelbar bevor der Hase zur Strecke gebracht wird.
Auffallend ist, dass beide Reiter äußerst bewegt und individuell den Reitvorgang vorführen. Die Komposition ist neu: die Aktion des schnellen Rittes, von den niederländischen Malern angeregt, die Individualität der Pferde, bestimmt durch die englische Malkunst. Die Figuren, Reiter und Pferd, scheinen erfüllt mit Energie und Tatkraft. Das Bild gehört in die frühe Zeit von Wilhelm von Kobell, ein Meisterwerk der Komposition und der Ausführung.
Provenienz: Schloss Wittelsbach, Berchtesgaden; Privatsammlung.
Hare hunt. Oil on canvas, relined. Unsigned. Expert report: Prof. Dr. Siegfried Wichmann, Starnberg, 20.06.2001. Provenance: Castle Wittelsbach, Berchtesgaden; private collection.