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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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Havers, Mandy
Born 1953 Portsmouth, lives and works in Coventry.
«One Body».
1992. Leather, felt, wood and glass eyes as well as oil on canvas. Signed under one arm. Stains.
H 174,
Rusty-red, brownish leather, imitating the colour of exposed muscle strands, dominates this whimsical, captivatingly curious work, reminiscent of the enlightened yet eerie skinned statues of the
Authentication: We would like to thank Mr Nicholas Treadwell, Treadwell Gallery, Vienna, for the direct consultation of the artist and the authentication via
Provenance: purchased at the C10 Galerie - Ulrike Behrends, Düsseldorf, in the 1990s; since then med art-collection of the HUG-group, 
Havers, Mandy
Geb. 1953 Portsmouth, lebt und arbeitet in Coventry.
«One Body».
1992. Leder, Filz, Holz und Glasaugen sowie Öl auf Leinwand. Unter einem Arm sign. Flecken.
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Rostrotes, bräunliches Leder, die Farbe offen gelegter Muskelstränge imitierend, beherrscht diese wunderliche, fesselnd-kuriose Arbeit, die an die aufklärerischen und zugleich schaurigen, gehäuteten Statuen der Akademien des 18. Jahrhunderts, Écorchés genannt, erinnert. Zwei Muskelmänner, Rücken an Rücken verbunden wie siamesische Zwillinge, nach unten in einem einzigen, säulenartigen Stumpf auslaufend, blicken mit ihren leeren, pupillenlosen Augen in die Ferne. Die Arme mit glatten Schnitten abgelöst, sind sie in ihrem fragmentierten Zustand zu ewiger Passivität und beobachtendem Stillstand verdammt. Wie beim römischen Gott Janus weisen ihre Häupter in entgegengesetzte Richtungen und verkörpern die Unvereinbarkeit der bis in die Unendlichkeit konkurrierenden Extreme wie Werden und Vergehen, Leben und Tod, Vergangenheit und Zukunft.
Echtheitsbestätigung: Wir danken Herrn Nicholas Treadwell, Treadwell Gallery, Wien, für die direkte Rücksprache mit der Künstlerin und die Bestätigung der Echtheit via
Provenienz: erworben in den 1990er Jahren in der C10 Galerie - Ulrike Behrends, Düsseldorf; seitdem med art-Sammlung der HUG-Gruppe,