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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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3272
Winterauktionen 19.–20.11.2021
Krämer, Peter II
1857 Philadelphia - 1936 Dießen a. Ammersee.
«Bergbauer (mountain farmer)». Smirking Bavarian with pickaxe and backpack.
Watercolour and gouache over pencil on strong, chamois paper. Signed lower right and inscribed «München (Munich)». As back board a trimmed book cover of the 1921 publication «Das Werk von Richard Müller (the work of Richard Müller)» with the embossed title and ex libris of Gustav Lenssen. Verso on the back board badly legible signed again, titled and inscribed «München (Munich)» as well as monogrammed in red sealing wax.
H 20,5,
Peter Krämer II came from a triumvirate of Bavarian-American painters of the same name. His father Peter Krämer I (1823 - 1907) studied under a grand master of historical painting, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, with the support of King Ludwig I. He emigrated to the USA in the 1840s, where he made a name for himself with, among other things, depictions of the American War of Liberation. While Peter Krämer III (1896 - 1972) specialised in church interiors, it was the middle one, Peter Krämer II, who focused on genre painting and whose present work bears witness to his eye for cosy, Bavarian folklore and his interest in the attentively observed depiction of rustic character types. His small-format watercolours usually depict elderly men, whom he captured with an almost obsessive love of detail, with an unmistakable focus on their traditional costumes and individual attributes representing various activities traditionally associated with Bavarian quaintness. In particular, he succeeded in giving his models a robust, nature-loving appearance, which, not without a humorous wink, is intended to convey to the viewer a feeling of serious, down-to-earth attachment to one's homeland and at the same time of uncomplicated, natural cordiality.
Provenance: private collection Munich.
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