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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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Locher, Thomas
Born 1956 Munderkingen, lives and works in Berlin.
«Acht Unendliche Urteile, Entwurf
Serigraph on strong Phoenix Imperial wove paper by Scheufelen with three colours in three print runs, mounted on backing cardboard at the upper margin. Signed lower right and dated 2000. Numbered 47/250 lower left.
H 59,
The serigraph is one out of ten works from the portfolio «Netter Art Collection» with an edition of 250 signed and numbered copies. Published by Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart.
Frank Henry Netter (1906 - 1991) was an American physician who gained great renown for his medical illustrations. In 2000, in order to honour the «Michelangelo of medicine», the Stuttgart-based Thieme Verlag asked ten artists to supply eight drafts each for the book covers on the occasion of a special edition of the nine atlases designed and illustrated by Netter, including a supplementary volume. Of these bundles, one favourite draft was chosen per artist, which served as a cover, and a further one, which was published as part of this edition. Another design by Locher adorns the cover of the volume 7/10 «Bewegungsapparat I (musculoskeletal system I)».
Provenance: med art-collection of the HUG-group, 
Locher, Thomas
Geb. 1956 Munderkingen, lebt und arbeitet in Berlin.
«Acht Unendliche Urteile, Entwurf
Serigraphie auf festem Phoenix Imperial Velin von Scheufelen mit drei Farben in drei Druckgängen, am oberen Rand auf Unterlagekarton montiert. U.r. sign. und 2000 dat. U.l. 47/250 num.
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Die Serigraphie ist eines von zehn Werken der Mappe «Netter Art Collection» mit einer Auflage von 250 signierten und nummerierten Exemplaren. Herausgegeben vom Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart.
Frank Henry Netter (1906 - 1991) war ein amerikanischer Arzt, der sich durch seine medizinischen Illustrationen großes Renommee erwarb. Um den «Michelangelo der Medizin» gebührend zu ehren, beauftragte der Stuttgarter Thieme Verlag 2000 zehn Künstlerinnen und Künstler damit, anlässlich einer Sonderausgabe der neun von Netter konzipierten und illustrierten Atlanten samt Ergänzungsband, je acht Entwürfe für die Einbände zu liefern. Von diesen Konvoluten wurde pro Künstler ein Favorit gewählt, der als Einband fungierte, sowie einer, der als Teil dieser Edition herausgegeben wurde.
Ein weiterer Entwurf Lochers ziert das Cover des Bands 7/10 «Bewegungsapparat I».
Provenienz: med art-Sammlung der HUG-Gruppe,