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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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Winterauktionen 20.–21.11.2020
Casissa, Nicola circle of
Active in Naples between 1680 and 1731.
Two counterparts. Baroque ornate still lifes with masked fountain.
Oil on canvas, relined. Unsigned. Retouchings. Restored.
H 102,
Exuberantly luxuriant, colourful bouquets of flowers, uniting the blossoms of different seasons, juicy flesh of overripe melons and the velvety soft surface of fragrant peaches are united on these impressive Baroque still lifes. From grotesque masks, crystal-clear cool water, the origin of all nature's gifts, gurgles into shell-shaped, overflowing bowls. The grimaces of the fountains are the faces of the silenos and fauns, the lustful, wine-loving inhabitants of the forest, whose animalistic and unbridled activity remains hidden from us here. The Baroque metropolis of Naples, brimming with an exhilarating zest for life and enticing with bacchantic fire, is to be assumed as the place of origin of these sensual and voluptuous compositions.
Statement: We would like to thank Dr. Fred Meijer, Amsterdam, for the scientific consultation via
Provenance: private possession Princess Ella of Thurn and Taxis, until the 1930s Rome, then Duino castle, Trieste, lastly Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio; as a gift for the wedding of her step-granddaughter Princess Diane of Bourbon-Parma with Prince Franz-Josef of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen in 1955, transferred to her private property Sigmaringen castle, after 1961 Stuttgart and from 1964 on Bad Krozingen; in 2020 by succession transferred to her children. 
Casissa, Nicola Umkreis
Tätig in Neapel zwischen 1680 und 1731.
Paar Gegenstücke. Barocke Prunkstillleben mit Maskenbrunnen.
Öl auf Leinwand, doubliert. Unsign. Retuschen. Altrest.
H.
Überbordend üppige, farbenfrohe Blumenbouquets, die Blüten unterschiedlicher Jahreszeiten vereinend, saftiges Fruchtfleisch überreifer Melonen und die samtig weiche Oberfläche duftender Pfirsiche sind auf diesen eindrucksvollen barocken Prunkstillleben vereint. Aus grotesken Masken perlt gurgelnd kristallklares, kühles Nass, der Ursprung aller Gaben der Natur, in muschelförmige, überlaufende Schalen. Die Fratzen der Brunnen sind die Gesichter der Silene und Faune, der lüsternen, weinseligen Bewohner des Waldes, deren animalisches und zügelloses Treiben uns hier verborgen bleibt. Die vor berauschender Lebenslust strotzende und mit bacchantischem Feuer lockende Barockmetropole Neapel ist als Ursprungsort dieser sinnenfrohen und schwelgerischen Kompositionen anzunehmen.
Stellungnahme: Wir danken Herrn Dr. Fred Meijer, Amsterdam, für die wissenschaftliche Beratung via
Provenienz: Privatbesitz Prinzessin Ella von Thurn und Taxis, bis in die 1930er Jahre Rom, danach Schloss Duino, Triest, zuletzt Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio; als Geschenk zur Hochzeit ihrer Stiefenkelin Prinzessin Diane von Bourbon-Parma mit Prinz Franz-Josef von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen 1955 übergegangen in deren Privatbesitz auf Schloss Sigmaringen, nach 1961 Stuttgart und ab 1964 Bad Krozingen; 2020 durch Erbfolge übergegangen an deren Kinder.