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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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Three objects with figurative representations, a three-dimensional worked dolphin, probably a toy, a two-sided medallion or weight and a bust. Probably Roman 3rd C. BC. Terracotta and clay, with remnants of polychrome painting. Signs of age, chipped.
Small clay figures of animals, partially painted in polychrome colours, have been a very popular toy for the children of the Ancient world. Some of the preserved examples are showing holes or bores in the middle, like the present example as well, and were originally fixed on sticks. Some of them have been found in graves as burial gifts.
Provenance: purchased in the 1960s at Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne; since then private collection Dr. Dr. Albert Gilles, Cologne, and succession.
Wohl römisch 3. Jh. v. Chr. Terrakotta und Ton, mit Resten polychromer Bemalung. Darunter ein vollplastisch modellierter Delphin aus Ton mit Resten der originalen Bemalung in Weiß und Rosa und einem Loch in der Mitte, vermutlich ein Spielzeug. Ferner ein doppelseitig gearbeitetes Gewicht oder Medaillon mit der Darstellung eines sich anblickenden Paares im Profil auf der einen sowie einem ein Tier, vielleicht einen Fuchs, am Schwanz emporhebenden Knaben auf der anderen Seite, mit zwei Löchern für das Anbringen einer Aufhängung im oberen Bereich. Darüber hinaus die in Terrakotta fein ausgeführte Darstellung des Kopfes einer jungen Frau mit gelocktem Haar. Altersspuren, best.
H. 4
Tonfiguren von Tieren, teilweise bunt bemalt, waren in der Antike ein beliebtes Kinderspielzeug. Einige der erhalten gebliebenen Exemplare weisen, wie auch das hier zum Aufruf kommende Beispiel, in der Körpermitte Löcher oder Bohrungen auf und waren ursprünglich auf Stäbe montiert. Einige solcher Figuren wurden in Gräbern als Beigaben gefunden.
Provenienz: erworben in den 1960er Jahren im Römisch-Germanischen Museum, Köln; seitdem Privatsammlung Dr. Dr. Albert Gilles, Köln, und Nachfolge.