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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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3270
Winterauktionen 20.–21.11.2020
Hauptmann, Karl
1880
Pentaptych with snow-covered Black Forest landscape.
Oil on panel. Main plate and lower left plate each signed lower left and dated (19)35. Lower right plate signed lower right. Upper left and right plate each monogrammed lower left.
H 69,5,
H 52,
H 15,5,
H 78,
The motifs depicted include two views of the Alps at night, the view from the Feldberg to the snow-covered Feldberger Hof, the view over the shaded Wiese valley to the Black Forest heights, including the Belchen rising in the distance on the right, and a view from the Feldberg to the Feldsee at its foot. Only one other polyptych by the artist is known. In 1934 Hauptmann had already painted a two by four meter large pentaptych for the Hotel Feldberger Hof, which is no longer preserved in its original composition and location. Of the former three panels, only two are conserved in private hands. Therefore this work, preserved in its entirety, is definetly considered as something outstanding in the oeuvre of the Feldberg artist.
We would like to thank Dr. Ruth Hötzel-Dickel,
Provenance: purchased directly from the artist; estate Curt Edgar Schreiber, former managing director of the watch factory Mauthe, Schwenningen, and successors.
Literature: Ruth Hötzel-Dickel, Karl Hauptmann der Feldbergmaler, Feldberg 1993, 
Hauptmann, Karl
1880
Pentaptychon mit verschneiter Schwarzwaldlandschaft.
Öl auf Holz. Haupttafel und linke untere Bildtafel jeweils u.l. sign. und (19)35 dat. Rechte untere Bildtafel u.r. sign. Linke und rechte obere Bildtafel jeweils u.l. monogr.
H. 69,5,
H.
H. 15,5,
H.
Die dargestellten Motive zeigen, neben zwei Alpenansichten bei Nacht, die Sicht vom Feldberg auf den eingeschneiten Gebäudekomplex des Feldberger Hofes, den Blick über das verschattete Wiesental auf Schwarzwaldhöhen, darunter den rechts in der Ferne aufragenden Belchen sowie einen Blick vom Feldberg auf den an seinem Fuße liegenden Feldsee.
Lediglich ein weiteres Polyptychon des Künstlers ist bekannt. Im Jahr 1934 hatte Hauptmann bereits für das Hotel Feldberger Hof ein zwei mal fast vier Meter großes Pentaptychon gefertigt, welches heute jedoch nicht mehr in seiner ursprünglichen Zusammensetzung und an seinem angestammten Ort erhalten ist. Von den einstigen drei Tafeln sind noch zwei in Privatbesitz erhalten.
Insofern handelt es sich bei diesem in seiner Ganzheit erhaltenen Werk um etwas Herausragendes im Œuvre des Feldbergkünstlers.
Wir danken Frau Dr. Ruth Hötzel-Dickel,
Provenienz: erworben direkt beim Künstler; Nachlass Curt Edgar Schreiber, ehemaliger Geschäftsführer der Uhrenfabrik Mauthe, Schwenningen, und Nachfolge.
Literatur: Ruth Hötzel-Dickel, Karl Hauptmann der Feldbergmaler, Feldberg 1993,