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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4327 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Glattacker, Adolf 1878 Wehr i. Wiesental - 1971 Tüllingen. «Blick ins Wiesental vom Tullinger Berg (view into the valley called ... | ||||
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1891 (Spring Sale Glattacker, Adolf 1878 Wehr i. Wiesental - 1971 Tüllingen. Aquarellierte Bleistiftzeichnung. Brustbildnis eines brünetten Knaben. Mit ... | ||||
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2099 (Spring Sale Glattacker, Adolf 1878 Wehr i. Wiesental - 1971 Tüllingen. Tuschfederzeichnung mit Weißhöhungen. «d'Wlt isch en Ai, d'Sunne der ... | ||||
2100 (Spring Sale Glattacker, Adolf 1878 Wehr i. Wiesental - 1971 Tüllingen. Drei Tuschfederzeichnungen mit Weißhöhungen. «Zu: Sprüche beim Trinken: ... | ||||
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1980 (Winter Sale Glattacker, Adolf 1878 Wehr i. Wiesental - 1971 Tüllingen. Öl/Lw. Hirte mit seiner Herde, ein Lämmchen auf dem Arm haltend, sein Hund ... | ||||
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1824 (Autumn Sale Glattacker, Adolf 1878 Wehr i. Wiesental - 1971 Tüllingen. Bleistiftzeichnung. «Rübezahl mit AG». Rübezahl mit Keule in der Hand ... | ||||
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1967 (Spring Sale Glattacker, Adolf 1878 Wehr i. Wiesental - 1971 Tüllingen. Gouache. "Heimkehr". Auf einem Waldweg auf einem Esel reitender alter ... | ||||
1968 (Spring Sale Glattacker, Adolf 1878 Wehr i. Wiesental - 1971 Tüllingen. Gouache. "Freude, schöner Götterfunken". Im Himmel musizierende Putti, in ... | ||||
1969 (Spring Sale Glattacker, Adolf 1878 Wehr i. Wiesental - 1971 Tüllingen. Öl/Holz. Allegorien der vier Jahreszeiten in Form von Putti mit ... | ||||
1970 (Spring Sale Glattacker, Adolf 1878 Wehr i. Wiesental - 1971 Tüllingen. Öl/Lw. "Madgdalena Holdermann geb. Reichert im 77. Lebensjahr". ... | ||||
1971 (Spring Sale Glattacker, Adolf 1878 Wehr i. Wiesental - 1971 Tüllingen. Kassette mit 18 Werken, darunter Tusch- und Bleistiftzeichnungen sowie ... | ||||
1972 (Spring Sale Glattacker, Adolf 1878 Wehr i. Wiesental - 1971 Tüllingen. Aquarellierte Bleistiftzeichnung. "Sipplinger Rosen". Rosenbäumchen am ... | ||||
1973 (Spring Sale Glattacker, Adolf 1878 Wehr i. Wiesental - 1971 Tüllingen. Tuschzeichnung. "Jugenderinnerungen. Ein Traum: Bei den Heinzelmännlein in ... | ||||
1974 (Spring Sale Glattacker, Adolf 1878 Wehr i. Wiesental - 1971 Tüllingen. Bleistiftzeichnung mit Weißhöhungen. "Der Schneemann und seine Bildner". ... | ||||
1975 (Spring Sale Glattacker, Adolf 1878 Wehr i. Wiesental - 1971 Tüllingen. Bleistiftzeichnung. "Die erste Zensur. Aus der Schulstube anno 1892 in ... | ||||
1976 (Spring Sale Glattacker, Adolf 1878 Wehr i. Wiesental - 1971 Tüllingen. Bleistiftzeichnung. "Neujahransingen". Drei Jungen, sich Neujahrsbrezeln ... | ||||
1977 (Spring Sale Glattacker, Adolf 1878 Wehr i. Wiesental - 1971 Tüllingen. Bleistiftzeichnung mit Weißhöhungen. "Der grüne Jäger". An einem Wegweiser ... | ||||
1978 (Spring Sale Glattacker, Adolf 1878 Wehr i. Wiesental - 1971 Tüllingen. Bleistiftzeichnung mit Weißhöhungen. "Gespensterbäume". Junge, in ... | ||||
1979 (Spring Sale Glattacker, Adolf 1878 Wehr i. Wiesental - 1971 Tüllingen. Bleistiftzeichnung. "Müetterli worum hülsch?". In der Stube um einen Tisch ... | ||||
1980 (Spring Sale Glattacker, Adolf 1878 Wehr i. Wiesental - 1971 Tüllingen. Bleistiftzeichnung mit Weißhöhungen. "Vatter bisch so guet und gimmer ... | ||||
1981 (Spring Sale Glattacker, Adolf 1878 Wehr i. Wiesental - 1971 Tüllingen. Bleistiftzeichnung mit Weißhöhungen. "Hoorig, hoorig, hoorig isch die ... | ||||
1982 (Spring Sale Glattacker, Adolf 1878 Wehr i. Wiesental - 1971 Tüllingen. Bleistiftzeichnung mit Weißhöhungen. "Jugenderinnerungen. Heimfahrt vom ... | ||||
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2448 (Winter Sale Glattacker, Adolf 1878 Wehr i. Wiesental - 1971 Tüllingen. Aquarellierte Bleistiftzeichnung. Halbfigurenbildnis eines kleinen ... |
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