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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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Herbstauktionen 19.–20.10.2018
Arakawa, Shusaku
1936 Nagoya - 2010 New York.
«Untitled». Acrylic with pencil on canvas. Signed lower middle, titled and dated 1968. Verso signed again, titled and dated «1968 at New York». Verso on the stretcher an exhibition label of Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York, as well as two labels of the Gallery Schwarz, Milan, and the gallery art in progress, Munich, each with the work's data.
H 181, W 122 cm.
Shusaku Arakawa studied medicine and mathematics in Tokyo before moving to New York in 1961. First exhibited in the 1960s, his series of «Diagram Paintings» became representative of his conceptual paintings and can be interpreted as phase shift from three-dimensional shape to two-dimensional surface. Despite their analytical scheme, Arakawa's works of art are rather fragile, turning «pseudo-technical» drawings (diagrams) into poetic structures.
Consultation: We would like to thank Mr Stephen Hepworth, Director of Collections at the Reversible Destiny Foundation, New York, for the kind remarks, via
The Reversible Destiny Foundation was founded in 2010 by Arakawa and Madeline Gins to promote their work and philosophy in the areas of art, architecture and creative writing.
Provenance: Gallery Schwarz, Milan; Herbert and Virginia Lust, Greenwich, Connecticut; Gallery art in progress, Munich; private collection Switzerland.
Exhibition: Area Codes
We would like to thank Mrs Patricia Magnani, registrar, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, for the confirmation of the work being part of the exhibition mentioned above, via
Catalogue: Dritte Internationale Frühjahrsmesse Berliner Galerien 1971, Interessengemeinschaft Berliner Kunsthändler, Berlin 1971, p.58, ill. 13. 
1936 Nagoya - 2010 New York.
«Untitled». Acryl mit Bleistift auf Leinwand. Mitte u. sign., bet. und 1968 dat. Verso nochmals sign., bet. und «1968 at New York» dat. Verso auf dem Keilrahmen ein Ausstellungsetikett des Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York, sowie ein Etikett der Galleria Schwarz, Milano, und ein Etikett der Galerie art in progress, München, jeweils mit den Angaben zum Werk.
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Shusaku Arakawa studierte Medizin und Mathematik in Tokio bevor er 1961 nach New York übersiedelte. In den 1960er Jahren stellte er erstmals seine Serie der «Diagram Paintings» aus, die repräsentativ für seinen konzeptionellen Stil stehen und in seinem Œuvre den Wechsel von der Dreidimensionalität hin zum Zweidimensionalen markieren. Seine Arbeiten sind trotz ihres vordergründig analytischen Schemas zart und zerbrechlich - aus pseudo-technischen Zeichnungen (Diagrammen) werden poetische Gebilde.
Beratung: Wir danken Herrn Stephen Hepworth, Sammlungsdirektor der Reversible Destiny Foundation, New York, für die freundlichen Hinweise via
Die Reversible Destiny Foundation wurde 2010 von Arakawa und Madeline Gins gegründet, um ihre Arbeit und Philosophie in den Bereichen Kunst, Architektur und kreativem Schreiben zu fördern.
Provenienz: Galleria Schwarz, Milano; Herbert und Virginia Lust, Greenwich, Connecticut; Galerie art in progress, München; Privatsammlung Schweiz.
Ausstellung: Area Codes
Wir danken Frau Patricia Magnani, Archivarin, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, für die Bestätigung der Teilnahme des Werkes an der o.g. Ausstellung, via
Katalog: Dritte Internationale Frühjahrsmesse Berliner Galerien 1971, Interessengemeinschaft Berliner Kunsthändler, Berlin 1971,