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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Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
2134 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Feldsee at the Seebuck. Oil on panel. Signed lower left and ... | ||||
2135 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest farm in winter. 1930s. Oil on canvas. Signed lower ... | ||||
2136 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Verschneiter Schwarzwaldhof (snow covered Black Forest ... | ||||
2137 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Alte Mühle im Schnee im Schwarzwald (old mill in the snow at the ... | ||||
2138 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 View into a deep snow-covered Black Forest landscape. Oil on ... | ||||
2139 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest farm in summer. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right ... | ||||
2140 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 The Rankmühle by St. Märgen. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left ... | ||||
2141 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Birkweghof». Black Forest farm with outbuilding. Pencil and ... | ||||
2142 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Yach». Black Forest farms in Yach. Pencil on strong wove ... | ||||
2143 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «St. Märgen». Farm ensemble with pond. Pencil on wove paper. ... | ||||
2144 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «St. Märgen». View of a Black Forest farm between rising fir ... | ||||
2145 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Landschaft mit Höfen (landscape with farms)». Vast Black Forest ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | |||
2146 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Landschaft mit Höfen (landscape with farms)». Black Forest farms ... | ||||
2147 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «St. Märgen». Farm with mill in St. Märgen. Pencil on brownish ... | ||||
2148 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Kalter Brunnen! Yach!». Pencil on strong wove paper. ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | |||
2149 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Alter Hebelhof (Feldberg) (Old Hebelhof, Feldberg)». Pencil, ... | ||||
2150 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Hof mit Baum (farm with tree)». Black Forest farm near St. ... | ||||
2151 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Beim Rankhof St. Märgen (at the Rankhof St. Märgen)». Pencil ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | |||
Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3215 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 View onto deeply snow-covered St. Blasien. Menzenschwand. Oil ... | ||||
3216 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Black Forest farm with stream in the winter sun. 1920s. Oil ... | ||||
3217 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Snow-covered Black Forest farms with pond. Oil on canvas. ... | ||||
3218 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Two snow covered Black Forest farms. 1920s. Oil on cardboard. ... | ||||
3219 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Two Black Forest farms in the winter twilight. Oil on canvas. ... | ||||
3220 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Frühling im Schwarzwald. (spring in the Black Forest.)». Farm on ... | ||||
3221 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Frankfurt Main Palmengarten (Frankfurt Main palm tree garden)». ... | ||||
3222 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Landscape with farms. Watercolour and gouache over pencil on ... | ||||
3223 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Farm in summer. Watercolour and gouache on chamois, strong ... | ||||
3224 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Naturstudie, Elzach (nature study, Elzach)». Black Forest house ... | ||||
3225 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Birkweghof». Black Forest farm with outbuilding. Pencil and ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | |||
3226 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Gerngroß. Ibental». Gerngroßhof near St. Märgen. Pencil on ... |
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