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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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Roth, Johann Gabriel
Active in the area of Lake Constance between 1718 and 1729.
Two counterparts. Gentleman with a gold-trimmed vest. Lady with a fan.
Oil on canvas, relined. Signed middle left, dated 1723 and inscribed «pinx.» as well as «AETATIS SUAE XXXX» respectively signed lower middle, dated 1723 and inscribed «pinx.» as well as upper right «AETATIS SUAE XXX». Verso on the stretcher of the lady badly legible inscribed by a different hand «Fam. [...] 1750 [...]». White shrinking cracks, retouchings, paint loss.
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Johann Gabriel Roth came to prominence in the first half of the
«Thus the man's waistcoat trimmed in gold and red is unusual in aristocratic circles at that time. The lady's dress appears completely outside the convention of aristocratic fashions and also refers more to a very upper-middle-class milieu: the cuts and elaboration of the richly embroidered waistcoat and the bonnet trimmed with lace and gold embroidery clearly show an influence from the formal range of bourgeois costumes, which was not usually worn by the nobility at that time.» The present works represent «an excellent and important witness of southern German portrait culture, especially in the Lake Constance area.» from: Patrick Heinstein, painting expertise, Neuchâtel, 19.08.2020.
Expert report: Patrick Heinstein, Neuchâtel, 19.08.2020.
We would like to thank Mr Patrick Heinstein, art historian and portrait expert, Neuchâtel, for the scientific advice via
Provenance: estate Curt Edgar Schreiber, former managing director of the watch factory Mauthe, Schwenningen, and successors. 
Roth, Johann Gabriel
Tätig im Bodenseeraum zwischen 1718 und 1729.
Paar Gegenstücke. Herr mit goldbesetzter Weste. Dame mit Fächer.
Öl auf Leinwand, doubliert. Mitte l. sign., 1723 dat. und bez. «pinx.» sowie «AETATIS SUAE XXXX» bzw. Mitte u. sign., 1723 dat. und bez. «pinx.» sowie o.r. «AETATIS SUAE XXX». Verso auf dem Keilrahmen der Dame von fremder Hand schlecht leserlich bez. «Fam. [...] 1750 [...]». Frühschwundrisse, Retuschen, Farbfehlstellen.
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Johann Gabriel Roth trat in der ersten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts als Schöpfer von Fresken und Altargemälden in Südwestdeutschland, beispielsweise in den Schlössern Meßkirch und Kißlegg sowie im Kloster Weisenau, hervor. Original signierte Porträts aus seiner Hand hingegen können als außergewöhnlich seltene und bedeutende Entdeckungen gelten. Bei dem dargestellten Paar handelt es sich um sehr wohlhabende Eheleute, die vermutlich weniger adliger als vielmehr bürgerlicher Herkunft waren.
«So ist der in Gold und Rot gearbeitete Westenbesatz des Mannes in Adelskreisen zu jener Zeit unüblich. Die Kleidung der Dame erscheint vollends ausserhalb der Konvention adeliger Moden und verweist ebenfalls eher auf ein sehr gehobenes bürgerliches Milieu: Schnitte und Ausarbeitung der reich bestickten Weste und die mit Spitzen und Goldstickerei besetzte Haube belegen eindeutig einen Einfluss aus dem Formenkreis bürgerlicher Tracht, wie sie vom Adel seinerzeit für gewöhnlich nicht getragen wurde.» Die vorliegenden Werke stellen «ein exzellentes und wichtiges Zeugnis süddeutscher Porträtkultur insbesondere des Bodenseeraums dar.» aus: Patrick Heinstein, Gemäldeexpertise, Neuchâtel, 19.08.2020.
Expertise: Patrick Heinstein, Neuchâtel, 19.08.2020.
Wir danken Herrn Patrick Heinstein, Kunsthistoriker und Experte für Porträts, Neuchâtel, für die wissenschaftliche Beratung via
Provenienz: Nachlass Curt Edgar Schreiber, ehemaliger Geschäftsführer der Uhrenfabrik Mauthe, Schwenningen, und Nachfolge.