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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Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3087 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Fleck, Ralph Born 1951 | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3097 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Geiger, Max Meinrad Born 1954 Inzlingen, lives and works ibid. «Stele 1». Spruce, carved and lacquered in white, on a square wooden ... | starting price: 300,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3098 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Geiger, Max Meinrad Born 1954 Inzlingen, lives and works ibid. «Stele 2». Spruce, carved and varnished in white, on a square wooden ... | starting price: 300,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3099 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Goering, Bernd Born 1962 Basel, lives and works in Lörrach and Efringen-Kirchen. «Ohne Titel (untitled)». 2008. Rhine pebble ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3100 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Goering, Bernd Born 1962 Basel, lives and works in Lörrach and Efringen-Kirchen. «Ohne Titel (untitled)». 1996. Rose-coloured ... | starting price: 600,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3101 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Goering, Bernd Born 1962 Basel, lives and works in Lörrach and Efringen-Kirchen. «Ohne Titel (untitled)». Green granite. Signed ... | starting price: 900,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3102 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Goering, Bernd Born 1962 Basel, lives and works in Lörrach and Efringen-Kirchen. «Ohne Titel (untitled)». Tonneau. 2014. Brick. ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3103 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Goering, Bernd Born 1962 Basel, lives and works in Lörrach and Efringen-Kirchen. «Ohne Titel (untitled)». Arch. 2014. Brick. ... | starting price: 600,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3109 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Haas, Florian Born 1961 «Gummiboot ganz allein mit Rudern (rubber ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3110 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Haas, Florian Born 1961 «Lili Marlene / Drehbarer Helmling (Lili ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3120 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hammerstiel, Robert 1933 Vršac - 2020 Neunkirchen. «Landschaft. Viertel unter d. Wienerwald (landscape. District by the ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3121 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hartung, Hans 1904 Leipzig - 1989 Antibes. Untitled. Composition in green, yellow and blue. Colour lithograph on wove paper. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3126 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Holzhuber, Sebastian Born 1949 Vienna, lives and works in Amsterdam. «Blauw Schild». Diptych. Mixed media with gouache, oil pastel ... | starting price: 300,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3132 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hüppi, Alfonso Born 1935 «RE32». Casein paint on wooden pallet ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3133 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hurzlmeier, Rudi Born 1952 Mallersdorf, lives and works in Munich. «Pieper (piper)». Acrylic on wove paper. Signed lower right. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3141 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Knoebel, Imi i.e. Klaus Wolf Born 1940 Dessau, lives and works in Düsseldorf. Six original editions from the cycle «Pure Freude I (pure joy ... | starting price: 14000,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3142 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Koch, Gabriele Born 1948 Lörrach, lives and works in London. Vessel. Smoke-fired, white pottery. Ovoid shape with wide opening ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3143 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Koch, Gabriele Born 1948 Lörrach, lives and works in London. «Red ovoid Vessel». Smoke-fired, red pottery. Ovoid shape with ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3144 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Koch, Gabriele Born 1948 Lörrach, lives and works in London. «Pink bottle form». Smoke-fired, pink pottery. Slender bottle ... | starting price: 350,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3145 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Koch, Gabriele Born 1948 Lörrach, lives and works in London. «Grey Amphora». Smoke-fired, white pottery. Amphora shape. Signed ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3146 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Köhler,Ludwig Born 1955 Stockach, lives and works in Endingen. «o.T. (untitled)». White-blue leaning object. Around 1994/95. ... | starting price: 700,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3147 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Köhler, Ludwig Born 1955 Stockach, lives and works in Endingen. «o.T. (untitled)». Light blue-red, ribbed leaning ... | starting price: 900,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3148 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Kubach, Livia and Michael Kropp Born 1966 Bad Münster a. Stein resp. born 1960 Köln, live and work in Bad Kreuznach. «Stein für die Stille (stone ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3149 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Kubach, Livia and Michael Kropp Born 1966 Bad Münster a. Stein resp. born 1960 Köln, live and work in Bad Kreuznach. «Schalenturm (bowl ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3150 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Kubach, Livia and Michael Kropp Born 1966 Bad Münster a. Stein resp. born 1960 Köln, live and work in Bad Kreuznach. «Stein für die Stille (stone ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3151 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Kubach, Livia and Michael Kropp Born 1966 Bad Münster a. Stein resp. born 1960 Köln, live and work in Bad Kreuznach. «Stein für das Licht (stone ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3152 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Kubach-Wilmsen, Anna Maria and Wolfgang Kubach 1937 Appeldorn - 2021 Bad Münster a. Stein resp. 1936 Bad Münster a. Stein - 2007 ibid. «Goldaderbüchlein (little ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3153 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Kubach-Wilmsen, Anna Maria and Wolfgang Kubach 1937 Appeldorn - 2021 Bad Münster a. Stein resp. 1936 Bad Münster a. Stein - 2007 ibid. «Steinfeder (feather of ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3157 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Lachauer, Alfons Born 1944 Rosenheim, lives and works in Stephanskirchen. Untitled. Charcoal grey - light grey. Diptych, verso ... | starting price: 1100,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3162 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Lüpertz, Markus Born 1941 Liberec/Bohemia, lives and works in Berlin, Karlsruhe, Düsseldorf and Florence. Untitled. Around 1982. ... |
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