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 19.–20.11.2021 Art Nouveau, Art déco and Design | ||||
3014 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Gallé, Émile 1846 Nancy - 1904 ibid. Basket with coat of arms. Nancy and Faiencerie de St. Clément circa 1878. Sand-coloured ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | |||
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3222 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Meytens, Martin van the Younger school 1695 Stockholm - 1770 Vienna. Portrait emperor Francis I. Oil on canvas, relined. Unsigned. Verso on the ... | ||||
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3426 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Alexander Adam Handbuch der römischen Alterthümer. Zur vollständigen Kenntnis der Sitten und Gewohnheiten der Römer und zum leichtern ... | ||||
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3321 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Spitzweg, Carl 1808 Munich - 1885 ibid. Standing male nude, javelin thrower. Circa | starting price: 1500,- EUR | |||
3322 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Spitzweg, Carl 1808 Munich - 1885 ibid. Sitting male nude with anatomical sketch. Circa | starting price: 2000,- EUR | |||
3324 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Spitzweg, Carl 1808 Munich - 1885 ibid. Standing male nude, seen from behind. Circa | starting price: 2000,- EUR | |||
3325 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Spitzweg, Carl 1808 Munich - 1885 ibid. Sitting male nude, turning away from the viewer. Circa | starting price: 2000,- EUR | |||
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3546 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Burgkmair, Hans d.Ä. 1473 Augsburg - 1531 ebd. «Venus und Merkur (Venus and Mercury)». 1520. Iron etching. Monogrammed lower right in ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2128 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Diehl, Hans-Jürgen Geb. 1940 Hanau. Öl/Lw. Schatten eines Gewehrlaufs (Androiden). Vor einer mit einem roten Kreuz als Eingang zum ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2313 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Gen, J. Naiver Maler 2. Hälfte Farblithographie. Ländliche Idylle. In weiter Hügellandschaft unter ... | |||
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2405 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Thurgau Landschaft und See. Von Hans Niederhauser, Hedi Krähenmann und Herbert Schläger. Kreuzlingen, Bodan o.J. (1984). Mit ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 26.–28.11.2009 Russian Works of Art | ||||
0142 (Autumn Auctions 26.–28.11.2009) Seltenes Osterei mit Monogramm Kaiserliche Porzellanmanufaktur, St. Petersburg um 1900. Porzellan, glasiert, polychrom bemalt und goldstaffiert. ... | starting price: 3500,- EUR | |||
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2077 (Autumn Auctions 26.–28.11.2009) Berte, J. Genremaler Öl/Lw. Der Winzer. Ein älterer Herr mit Bauchflasche und Kerze, ein Glas Wein ... | starting price: 200,- EUR |
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