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. | 3071 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Brodwolf, Jürgen Born 1932 Dübendorf, lives and works in Kandern. Medallion. Mixed media with acrylic, oil and relief structure ... | starting price: 2000,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3074 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Calderara, Antonio 1903 Abbiategrasso - 1978 Vacciago. View of a village by the Lago d'Orta. Coloured pencil and pencil on ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3075 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Calderara, Antonio 1903 Abbiategrasso - 1978 Vacciago. View of the Lago d'Orta with the island San Giulio on the horizon. Pencil ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3083 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Ebert, Jürgen Born 1954 Bocholt, lives and works ibid. «Hengstgruppe (group of stallions)». Bronze, brown patinated. Each ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3084 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Emmert, Hedwig Born 1943 Lörrach, lives and works in Efringen-Kirchen. Three glass objects. Houses. 2001. Colourless, ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3091 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Francis, Sam 1923 San Mateo - 1994 Santa Monica. Untitled from «Michel Waldberg: Poèmes dans le ciel». 1986. Colour ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3092 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Francis, Sam 1923 San Mateo - 1994 Santa Monica. Untitled from «Michel Waldberg: Poèmes dans le ciel». 1986. Lithograph on ... | starting price: 800,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3093 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Fußmann, Klaus Born 1938 Velbert, lives and works in Gelting and Berlin. Landscape near Gelting. Watercolour and gouache on ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3118 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hahn, Friedemann Born 1949 Singen a. Hohentwiel, lives and works in Lürschau. Humphrey Bogart in «Casablanca, 1942». Graphite ... | starting price: 1200,- EUR | ||
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. | 3127 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Vienna - 2000 on the Queen Elizabeth II off New Zealand. «10002 nights Homo Humus come va how do you do». ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3128 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Vienna - 2000 on the Queen Elizabeth II off New Zealand. «Columbus Rainy Day in India» from «Regentag - Look ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3129 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Vienna - 2000 on the Queen Elizabeth II off New Zealand. «10002 nights Homo Humus come va how do you do». ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3130 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Vienna - 2000 on the Queen Elizabeth II off New Zealand. «Spiralental (spiral valley)». Rosenthal Glas und ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3131 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hundertwasser, Friedensreich 1928 Vienna - 2000 on the Queen Elizabeth II off New Zealand. «10002 nights Homo Humus come va how do you ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3136 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Kamm, Hanspeter Born 1938 Winterthur, lives in Bern. «Mauersegler (swift)». 2000. Wire and wire mesh with rust patina, fabric ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3137 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Kamm, Hanspeter Born 1938 Winterthur, lives in Bern. «Schlägerei (brawl)». Wire and wire mesh with rust patina. Monogrammed on ... | starting price: 800,- 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. | 3156 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Langendorf, Gabriele Born 1961 Rheinfelden, lives and works in Saarbrücken. «Schöne Aussicht 3 (beautiful view 3)». Oil on canvas. ... | |||
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. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3163 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Lüpertz, Markus Born 1941 Liberec/Bohemia, lives and works in Berlin, Karlsruhe, Düsseldorf and Florence. Back figure. Oil ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3164 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Lüpertz, Markus Born 1941 Liberec/Bohemia, lives and works in Berlin, Karlsruhe, Düsseldorf and Florence. Gun carriage with steel ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3165 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Max, Peter Born 1937 Berlin, lives in New York. «Statue of Liberty». 1990. Bronze, painted in polychrome colours, on a ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3166 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Micheluzzi, Massimo Born 1957 Venice, lives and works ibid. Red Battuto Murrhine vase. Red, hand-blown, cut, beaten glass with ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3172 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Nohal, Reinald 1938 Mainz - 2022 Berlin. «Das Leben ist eins der Schwersten (life is one of the hardest)». Felt-tip pen on red ... | starting price: 450,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3176 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Penck, A.R., i.e. Ralf Winkler 1939 Dresden - 2017 Zurich. Untitled from «Kopenhagen Suite». 1995. Colour lithograph on laid paper. Signed ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3183 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Remlinger, Jean Born 1935 Strasbourg, lives and works ibid. Dancers. Mixed media with coloured pencil, acrylic and watercolour ... |
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