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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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Winterauktionen 20.–21.11.2020
Feininger, Lyonel
1871 New York - 1956 ibid.
«Distance».
Watercolour and ink on paper, mounted on backing cardboard at the upper margin. Signed lower left and dated 1947 lower right. Verso titled. Verso on the back board an exhibition label from the Irving Galleries, Palm Beach, as well as a label from the Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Galleries, New York, each with the work's data.
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«The ship motif runs through Feininger's entire oeuvre. For sleek yachts, mighty ocean-going steamships with fortress-like floors and busy cargo ships with long grey trails of smoke, he has retained a childlike enthusiasm throughout his life. In the early pictures from 1911, when the motif appeared for the first time, ladies and gentlemen of the sophisticated society looked out at the ships with monocles or binoculars. During a stay in Paris in 1912, Feininger came into contact with cubism in its early stages - and began to splinter waves, sky and boats cubistically. When Walter Gropius called him to the Bauhaus in 1919, his colour palette turned Cubist brown. In the twenties, Feininger then detached himself from external influences and found his very own style: the ships are now inserted into dramatic light and shadow spaces. Even in the American years, Feininger continued to pursue the motif, always as a reminder of Baltic Sea holidays. "Feininger lived off the Baltic Sea," explains Luckhardt (Ulrich Luckhardt, Hamburger Kunsthalle, curator of the exhibition).
What is strange about this lifelong enthusiasm for ships is that Feininger hated sailing. Crossings from Europe to the USA were an ordeal for him. He was prone to seasickness. But he built model boats, alone or with his children - for relaxation.» from: Johanna Di Blasi, Lyonel Feininger in einer Ausstellung der Stiftung Ahlers, Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, 01.11.2010.
Photo certificate: Achim Moeller, Managing Principal, The Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York/Berlin, 03.07.2019.
Provenance: Irving Galleries, Palm Beach; Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Galleries, New York; private collection Hessen.
Archive: The present work is registered at the archive of the Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York/Berlin, under archive
The work is listed in the upcoming catalogue raisonné of drawings and watercolours by Achim Moeller and Sebastian Ehlert. 
Feininger, Lyonel
1871 New York - 1956 ebd.
«Distance».
Aquarell und Tinte auf Papier, am oberen Rand auf Unterlagekarton montiert. U.l. sign. und u.r. 1947 dat. Verso bet. Verso auf der Rahmenrückwand ein Ausstellungsetikett der Irving Galleries, Palm Beach, sowie ein Etikett der Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Galleries, New York, jeweils mit den Angaben zum Werk.
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«Das Schiffmotiv zieht sich bei Feininger durchs Gesamtwerk. Für schnittige Jachten, mächtige Hochseedampfer mit burgartig aufgetürmten Stockwerken und geschäftige Frachtschiffe mit langen grauen Rauchfahnen hat er sich zeitlebens eine kindliche Begeisterung bewahrt. In den frühen Bildern von 1911 an, als das Motiv zum ersten Mal auftaucht, blicken Damen und Herren der feinen Gesellschaft mit Monokeln oder Feldstechern hinaus auf die Schiffe. Bei einem Parisaufenthalt 1912 kam Feininger mit dem Kubismus im Keimstadium in Berührung - und begann Wellen, Himmel und Boote kubistisch aufzusplittern. 1919, als er von Walter Gropius ans Bauhaus berufen wurde, war auch seine Farbpalette kubistisch braun. In den zwanziger Jahren löste Feininger sich dann von äußeren Einflüssen und fand zu einem ganz eigenen Stil: Die Schiffe sind nun eingefügt in dramatische Licht- und Schattenräume. Noch in den amerikanischen Jahren verfolgte Feininger das Motiv weiter, stets als Erinnerung an Ostseeurlaube. „Feininger hat von der Ostsee gelebt", erklärt Luckhardt (Ulrich Luckhardt, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kurator der Ausstellung).
Merkwürdig bei dieser lebenslangen Begeisterung für Schiffe ist: Feininger hat das Segeln gehasst. Überfahrten von Europa in die USA waren für ihn eine Tortur. Er neigte zu Seekrankheit. Modellboote gebastelt, allein oder mit seinen Kindern, aber hat er sein Leben lang - zur Entspannung.» aus: Johanna Di Blasi, Lyonel Feininger in einer Ausstellung der Stiftung Ahlers, Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, 01.11.2010.
Photo-Zertifikat: Achim Moeller, Managing Principal, The Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York/Berlin, 03.07.2019.
Provenienz: Irving Galleries, Palm Beach; Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Galleries, New York; Privatsammlung Hessen.
Archiv: Die vorliegende Arbeit ist im Archiv des Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York/Berlin, unter der
Das Werk ist in dem in Bearbeitung befindlichen Werkverzeichnis der Zeichnungen und Aquarelle von Achim Moeller und Sebastian Ehlert aufgeführt.