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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Image under artist's copyright. | 2313 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Spoerri, Daniel Born 1930 Galati. E «Die Spieler (player)». 1985. Seven bronze figures and a bronze ball. Each verso signed and ... | starting price: 80000,- EUR | ||
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3340 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Maske Mask. Ibibio, Nigeria. Carved wood, painted black and white. Signs of age. Provenance: according to the consignor, ... | starting price: 900,- EUR | |||
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4618 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Velde, Adriaen van de in der Art von Manner of Adriaen van de Velde 18th/19th C. Two farmer women. Oil on panel. Unsigned. Two restored cracks in the ... | starting price: 800,- EUR | |||
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1574 (Spring Auctions Deutscher Genremaler German genre painter 19th c. Grandmother with a child. Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Craquelure, restored. Provenance: ... | ||||
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0449 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Karaffe mit Gravur 18./ | ||||
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1509 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Hinterglasbild Süddeutsch | ||||
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1539 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Ikonenkreuz Zentralnordrussland um 1850. Tempera/Holz. Auf profiliertem Sockel, Maria und Johannes als Ganzfigurenbilder neben dem ... | ||||
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1814 (Autumn Auctions 26.–28.11.2009) Weibliche Heilige Wohl Spanien um 1800. Elfenbein. Stehende weibliche Figur in Nonnentracht, die Hände vor der Brust gefaltet. ... | starting price: 1200,- EUR | |||
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2100 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Toepper, Hans 1885 Briesen - 1956 München. Öl/Karton. Theatralische Szene. Im mittleren Teil des durch den Rahmen in drei ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | |||
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0937 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Schwarzwälder Uhrenträger Süddeutsch Mitte | starting price: 3500,- EUR | |||
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2038 (Autumn Auction Spitzweg, Carl 1808 München - 1885 ebd. Öl/Karton. «Zwei Sennerinnen auf der Alm (Dirndl auf der Alm)». Auf einem bewachsenen ... | ||||
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1218 (Spring Sale Bedeutende Boulleuhr mit Konsole Frankreich um 1720. André-Charles Boulle (1642 - 1732, Ebonist, Ziseleur und Skulpteur des französischen Hofes von ... | ||||
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2082 (Spring Sale Spitzweg, Carl 1808 München - 1885 ebd. Öl/Mahagoniholz. «Vor der Gastwirtschaft». An einer Straßenecke sich vor einer Schenke ... | ||||
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1015 (Winter Sale Perlenkette Deutsch Mitte | ||||
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0234 (Autumn Sale Weihwasserkesselchen | ||||
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0579 (Autumn Sale Bierkrug Mettlach 1885 - ca. 1930. Heller Scherben, glasiert und bemalt. Profilierter Standring, konischer Korpus mit ... | ||||
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1885 (Spring Sale Bracht, Eugen 1842 Morges - 1921 Darmstadt. Öl/Lw./Karton. "Bachbett". Steiniges, teils ausgetrocknetes Flussbett, von Fels und ... | ||||
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