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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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Chillida, Eduardo
1924 San Sebastián - 2002 ebd.
Yves Bonnefoy: «Le miracle du feu». 1986. Portfolio with three aquatints on BFK Rives wove paper. The graphics each signed lower left and numbered H.C.XII/XV lower right. The imprint signed again by the artist, as well as by the author.
Published in 1986 by Edition F.B., Paris, in a total edition of 100 examples, 75 Arabic numbered examples, ten examples numbered EA1 - EA10, as well as 15 examples numbered HCI - HCXV. The graphics printed by Ignacio Chillida, Saint Sebastián. With texts by Yves Bonnefoy on Arches wove paper (watermark), printed by François Da Ros, Paris. In the original linnen portfolio. Excellent condition.
Provenance: since 1986 private collection Frankfurt a.M.
Catalogue raisonné: Van der Koelen 86011-86013.
1924 San Sebastián - 2002 ebd.
Yves Bonnefoy: «Le miracle du feu». 1986. Mappe mit drei Aquatintaradierungen auf Velin von BFK Rives. Die Graphiken jeweils u.l. sign. und u.r. H.C.XII/XV num. Im Druckvermerk nochmals sign. vom Künstler sowie vom Autor.
H. 20,2,
Herausgegeben 1986 von Editions F.B., Paris, in einer Gesamtauflage von 100 Exemplaren, davon 75 arabisch nummeriert, zehn Exemplare nummeriert EA1 - EA10 sowie 15 Exemplare nummeriert HCI - HCXV. Die Graphiken gedruckt von Ignacio Chillida, San Sebastián. Mit Texten von Yves Bonnefoy auf Velin von Arches (Wasserzeichen), gedruckt von François Da Ros, Paris. In der originalen Leinenmappe. Ausgezeichneter Zustand.
Provenienz: seit 1986 Privatsammlung Frankfurt a.M.
Werkverzeichnis: Van der Koelen 86011-86013.