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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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Fontana, Lucio
1899 Rosario - 1968 Cornabbio.
Concetto spaziale. Ball pen and holes on silver coated cardboard on black cardboard. Signed and dated (19)55 lower middle in ball pen. Passepartout. The work is not listed at the Fondazione Lucio Fontana. Provenance: private collection. 
1899 Rosario - 1968 Cornabbio.
Concetto spaziale. Kugelschreiber und Lochung/silberbeschichteter Karton, auf schwarzen Karton aufgelegt. Mehrere Löcher in silberbeschichtetem Karton mit Kugelschreiber umrandet. U. Mitte mit Kugelschreiber sign. und (19)55 dat. H. 12, B. 9,5 cm (Blattgröße). Passepartout.
Das Werk ist nicht gelistet bei der Fondazione Lucio Fontana.
Im Jahr 1946 initiierte der italienische Avantgarde-Künstler Lucio Fontana das Manifiesto blanco, Weißes Manifest, welches die Gedanken des Futurismus aufnahm, eine Synthese von Malerei, Bildhauerei, Musik und Dichtung vorschlug und eine Abkehr von den herkömmlichen Materialien forderte. Mit den Manifesten seiner «Movimento spaziale», Raumkunst, ab dem Jahr 1947 forderte er, alle statischen Kunstgattungen durch eine dynamische Kunst zu ersetzen. Das Werk sollte allein aus der Vorstellungskraft des Betrachters wirken, indem es «von aller malerischen und propagandistischen Rhetorik» befreit werden sollte. Dieses neue Raumkonzept setzte Fontana um, indem er Bilder perforierte und damit statt eines zweidimensionalen Werks Plastizität erreichte. Das Lochmuster entstand meistens auf monochromen Bildern, eine Begrenzung der Fläche fehlte. Raum sollte sowohl in der Malerei als auch in der Skulptur als ein «sich frei entfaltendes, unbegrenztes Kontinuum» betrachtet werden. Seine Arbeit benannte der Künstler fortan «Concetto spaziale», Raumkonzept. Das Jahr 1949 bedeutete eine Zäsur in seinem künstlerischen Schaffen, es entstanden die ersten «Buchi», Löcher.
Provenienz: Privatsammlung.