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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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Winterauktionen 20.–21.11.2020
Hauptmann, Karl
1880
«Blick v. Blößling z. Wacht (view from the Blößling to the Wacht)».
Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. Verso on the stretcher on the artist's original label handwritten titled, dated 1940 and inscribed with the work's data. Verso on the stretcher handwritten inscribed «Herrn C.E. Schreiber Schwenningen a.N.». Retouching.
H 70,5,
It seems as if the viewer himself is standing here on the summit of Blössling - in the Bernauer Hochtal opposite the Herzogental - the Wacht, which is connecting the Präg and Wiesental with the Bernauer Hochtal, spreads out before him. The painting was purchased from the artist by Curt Edgar Schreiber, the great-grandson of the famous watch manufacturer Friedrich Mauthe.
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. 
Hauptmann, Karl
1880
«Blick v. Blößling z. Wacht».
Öl auf Leinwand. U.l. sign. Verso auf dem Keilrahmen auf einem Originaletikett des Künstlers handschriftlich bet., 1940 dat. und bez. mit den Angaben zum Werk. Verso auf dem Keilrahmen handschriftlich bez. «Herrn C.E. Schreiber Schwenningen a.N.». Retuschen.
H. 70,5,
Als stünde der Betrachter hier selbst auf dem Blössling - einem Gipfel im Bernauer Hochtal gegenüber vom Herzogental -, so breitet sich vor ihm die Wacht aus, welche die Präg und das Wiesental mit dem Bernauer Hochtal verbindet. Das Gemälde wurde von Curt Edgar Schreiber, dem Urenkel des berühmten Uhrenfabrikanten Friedrich Mauthe, beim Künstler erworben.
Wir danken Frau Dr. Ruth Hötzel-Dickel,
Provenienz: erworben direkt beim Künstler; Nachlass Curt Edgar Schreiber, ehemaliger Geschäftsführer der Uhrenfabrik Mauthe, Schwenningen, und Nachfolge.