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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4343 (Autumn Auctions Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1866 Twilight over a Rhine landscape. Oil on canvas. Signed lower ... | ||||
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4410 (Spring Auctions Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1866 «Herbstmorgen am Mathisleweiher bei Hinterzarten (morning in ... | ||||
4411 (Spring Auctions Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1866 Rhine landscape. Oil on canvas, relined. Signed lower right. ... | starting price: 1500,- EUR | |||
4412 (Spring Auctions Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1866 Farmhouse. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. DDDD1866 ... | ||||
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4455 (Autumn Auctions Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 «Engel in Alpersbach Hinterzarten». Oil on canvas. Signed and ... | ||||
4456 (Autumn Auctions Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 «Feldsee». Oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard. Unsigned. ... | ||||
4457 (Autumn Auctions Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 «Sonnen-Aufgang (sunrise)». Oil on canvas, mounted on ... | ||||
4458 (Autumn Auctions Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 «Birkenbach». Oil on canvas, mounted on masonite. Monogrammed ... | ||||
4459 (Autumn Auctions Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 River course in Hinterzarten. Oil on cardboard. Monogrammed ... | ||||
4460 (Autumn Auctions Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 «Selz am Rhein (Selz on the Rhine)». Oil on panel. Signed ... | ||||
4461 (Autumn Auctions Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 «Haslach». Oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard. Monogrammed ... | starting price: 900,- EUR | |||
4462 (Autumn Auctions Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 Harbour scenery. Oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard. ... | ||||
4463 (Autumn Auctions Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 Old Rhine landscape. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. ... | ||||
4464 (Autumn Auctions Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 «Altrhein». Oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard. Signed lower ... | ||||
Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
4645 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 Freiburg i.Br. - 1935 Hinterzarten. E «Schwarzwaldhaus im Schnee (Black Forest house in the snow)». Oil on ... | ||||
4646 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 Freiburg i.Br. - 1935 Hinterzarten. E «Winterabend im Schwarzwald (winter evening in the Black Forest)». Oil ... | ||||
4647 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 Freiburg i.Br. - 1935 Hinterzarten. E Landscape near Bernau. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated (19)22 lower ... | ||||
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2825 (Autumn Auctions Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 Freiburg i.Br. - 1935 Hinterzarten. «Vereiste Tannen - Feldberg (icy firs - Feldberg)». Oil on cardboard. ... | ||||
2826 (Autumn Auctions Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 Freiburg i.Br. - 1935 Hinterzarten. «Am Rinken. Feldberg (at Rinken. Feldberg)». Oil on canvas, mounted on ... | ||||
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1580 (Spring Auctions Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 Freiburg i.Br. - 1935 Hinterzarten. E ´Bl¸hende Wiesen: Schwarzwald (blooming meadows: Black Forest)ª. Oil on ... | ||||
1581 (Spring Auctions Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 Freiburg i.Br. - 1935 Hinterzarten. E Black Forest landscape near Mathisleweiher Hinterzarten. Oil on canvas, ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
1770 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 Freiburg i.Br. - 1935 Hinterzarten. «Herbst am Feldberg». Öl/Lw., auf Karton aufgezogen. Von einer steil ... | ||||
1771 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 Freiburg i.Br. - 1935 Hinterzarten. «Birken im Herbst». Öl/Lw., auf Karton aufgezogen. Stimmungsvolle Ansicht ... | ||||
1772 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 Freiburg i.Br. - 1935 Hinterzarten. Beim Mathisleweiher Hinterzarten. Öl/Lw., auf Karton aufgezogen. ... | ||||
1773 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 Freiburg i.Br. - 1935 Hinterzarten. Naturstudie des Altrhein bei Weisweil. Öl/Lw., auf Karton aufgezogen. ... | ||||
1774 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 Freiburg i.Br. - 1935 Hinterzarten. «Schniderjockeli. Schwarzenbach bei Schönwald». Öl/Karton. Blick auf ein ... | ||||
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1868 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 Freiburg i.Br. - 1935 Hinterzarten. Öl/Lw. «Forchtenberg». Von einem niedrigen Standpunkt am verschneiten Ufer ... | ||||
1869 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 Freiburg i.Br. - 1935 Hinterzarten. Bleistift. Schwarzwaldtal. Vor der Kulisse schroffer Berge in einem Tal ... | ||||
1870 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 Freiburg i.Br. - 1935 Hinterzarten. Öl/Lw. «Blick von der Windeck nach Nordwesten». Vom Berg Blick über eine ... | ||||
1871 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Dischler, Prof. Hermann 1867 Freiburg i.Br. - 1935 Hinterzarten. Öl/Lw. Freiburger Münster. Blick von einer verschneiten Terrasse des ... |
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