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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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Seel, Adolf
1829 Wiesbaden - 1907 Dillenburg.
In the cloister of the collegiate church of Berchtesgaden.
Oil on canvas. Signed lower right and badly legible dated (18)63. Two small holes. Restored.
H 70,5,
After his studies at the Düsseldorf Academy, Adolf Seel went on numerous study trips to explore the architectural wonders of Venice, Andalusia or the Middle East, which he immortalised in magnificent vedute. The present painting shows the view into the cloister of the collegiate church of St. Peter and St. John the Baptist in Berchtesgaden. A young priest, absorbed in his prayer book, walks on the reliefs of the gravestones. It is possible that Seel made a stop in Berchtesgaden during his journey to Northern Italy and saw the cloister himself. The reproduction of the Romanesque arcades, which is correct in every detail, would prove that. However, the view through a door onto a Gothic stained glass window derives from a picturesque architectural dream of the artist.
We would like to thank Mr Andreas Pfnür, archivist of the parish St. Andreas Berchtesgaden, Mr Alfred Spiegel-Schmidt, former chairman of the Heimatkundeverein Berchtesgaden, and Mr Johannes Schöbinger, Kreisheimatpfleger (curator of local traditions) Berchtesgaden, for the scientific advice via
Provenance: private possession Baden-Baden. 
Seel, Adolf
1829 Wiesbaden - 1907 Dillenburg.
Im Kreuzgang der Stiftskirche von Berchtesgaden.
Öl auf Leinwand. U.r. sign. und schlecht leserlich (18)63 dat. Zwei kl. Löcher. Altrest.
H. 70,5,
Nach seinem Studium an der Düsseldorfer Akademie begab sich Adolf Seel auf zahlreiche Studienreisen, um die architektonischen Wunderwerke Venedigs, Andalusiens oder des Nahen Ostens zu erkunden, die er in großartigen Veduten verewigte. Das vorliegende Gemälde zeigt den Blick in den Kreuzgang der Stiftskirche St. Peter und St. Johannes der Täufer in Berchtesgaden. Ein junger Priester, in sein Gebetbuch versunken, wandelt auf den Reliefs der Grabplatten. Möglicherweise hat Seel bei seiner Reise nach Norditalien in Berchtesgaden Station gemacht und den Kreuzgang selbst gesehen, wofür die bis ins Detail korrekte Wiedergabe der romanischen Arkaden spricht. Der Blick durch eine Tür auf ein gotisches Buntglasfenster entspringt jedoch einem pittoresken architektonischen Wunschtraum des Künstlers.
Wir danken Herrn Andreas Pfnür, Archivar der Pfarrei St. Andreas Berchtesgaden, Herrn Alfred Spiegel-Schmidt, ehemaliger Vorsitzender des Heimatkundevereins Berchtesgaden, und Herrn Johannes Schöbinger, Kreisheimatpfleger Berchtesgaden, für die wissenschaftliche Beratung per
Provenienz: Privatbesitz Baden-Baden.