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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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 ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 3154 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Kühl, Reinhard Born 1967 Lörrach, lives and works in Berlin. «Strohpantoffeln, Odessa (straw slippers, Odessa)». Oil on nettle. ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2024 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Pechstein, Hermann Max 1881 Zwickau - 1955 Berlin. «Frauenkopf (Lotte) (woman's head Lotte)». India ink on thin, brownish paper. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2034 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Schwippert, Kurt 1903 Solingen - 1983 Mayen. Ecce Homo. Bronze, golden brown patinated. Unsigned. H 55, | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2079 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Garstka, Manfred Born 1937 Ketrzyn//East Prussia, lives and works in Neckargerach. Untitled. Still life. Oil on nettle cloth. ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2079 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Munsky, Maina-Miriam 1943 Wolfenbüttel - 1999 Berlin. «BEIN II (leg II)». Oil on canvas. Signed lower right, dated (19)79 and titled. ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2093 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Prym-Kohler, Ruth Born 1929 Fürth, lives and works in Münsing. Untitled. Abstraction in green, blue and white. Oil on canvas. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2094 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Prym-Kohler, Ruth Born 1929 Fürth, lives and works in Münsing. «Schach matt (checkmate)». Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. Verso ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2095 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Prym-Kohler, Ruth Born 1929 Fürth, lives and works in Münsing. Untitled. Abstraction in yellow, orange and green. Oil on canvas. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2107 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Schork, Hans Born 1935 Aschaffenburg, lives and works in Munich and Vilsbiburg. «Gafsa 1973». Light kinetic object. Object ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2116 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Wesselmann, Tom 1931 Cincinnati - 2004 New York. «Monica Nude with yellow curtain». 1991. Aquatint from three plates in nine ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2117 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Wesselmann, Tom 1931 Cincinnati - 2004 New York. «Claire Nude». Serigraph in colours and lithograph in colours on strong wove ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2149 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Muter (Mutermilch), Mela (Maria Melania) 1876 Warsaw - 1967 Paris. Recto. «Buchtlandschaft (bay landscape)». View of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. 1940s. Oil ... | |||
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3008 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Dalpayrat, Pierre-Adrien 1844 Limoges - 1910 ibid. Pair of large shoulder vases. Circa 1905. Stoneware, high-firing glazed in red, dark ... | ||||
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