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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1488 (Spring Auctions Gryeff, Adriaen de Umkreis Adriaen de Gryeff circle. Hunting still life with dog. Oil on canvas, relined. Unsigned. Minor retouching. DDDDUm ... | ||||
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1635 (Spring Auctions Kirner, B. Painter of hunting scenes 19th c. A fox in trap. Oil on iron plate. Signed lower right. DDDDJagdmaler 19.Jh. Der ... | ||||
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2073 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Scheuerer, Julius 1859 München - 1913 Planegg. Öl/Holz. Hühner. Vögel verschiedener Rassen um einen Wassernapf. U.r. sign. H. 18, ... | ||||
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2008 (Autumn Auction Sanderson-Wells, John S. 1872 (?) - 1955 (?). Öl/Holz. Interieurszene mit zwei jungen Herren in Kleidung des 17. Jahrhunderts. Einer seinen ... | starting price: 2000,- EUR | |||
2011 (Autumn Auction Scheuerer, Julius 1859 München - 1913 Planegg. Öl/Holz. Vier Hühner und ein Hahn im Hühnerstall auf Stroh stehend und sitzend. U.l. ... | ||||
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2293 (Autumn Sale Hastings, K. Englischer Jagdmaler Öl/Holz. Durch spätsommerliche Landschaft preschende Jagdgesellschaft. ... | ||||
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2016 (Spring Sale Jagdmaler 18./ Öl/Lw., doubl. Küchenstillleben. Erlegte Rebhühner, Schnepfen und ein Hase. Unsign. ... | starting price: 1500,- EUR | |||
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2127 (Spring Sale Jagdmaler Öl/Karton. Erlegtes Reh, im Gras liegend. Unsign. Farbabsplitterungen. H. 27, | ||||
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1867 (Winter Sale Jagdmaler Öl/Lw. Höfische Jagd. Reiche Figurenstaffage, links im Vordergrund Hundemeute. Unsign. ... | ||||
2027 (Winter Sale Jagdmaler Öl/Karton. Erlegtes Reh, im Gras liegend. Unsign. Farbabsplitterungen. H. 27, | starting price: 200,- EUR | |||
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1664 (Autumn Sale Jagdmaler Öl/Lw. Höfische Jagd. Reiche Figurenstaffage, links im Vordergrund Hundemeute. Unsign. ... | starting price: 1300,- EUR | |||
2106 (Autumn Sale Wagener, F. Jagdmaler 19./ Öl/Lw. Auf eine Lichtung heraustretender, prächtiger Hirsch. U.l. sign. Feines ... | ||||
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2039 (Spring Sale Jagdmaler Öl/Holz. Winterlich karge Landschaft mit zwei über einem See auffliegenden Enten. U.l. ... | ||||
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2425 (Autumn Sale Jagdmaler Öl/Holz. Jagdhund, einen Fasan apportierend. Unsign. Farbabsplitterungen. | ||||
2519 (Autumn Sale Mönker, H. Jagdmaler 1. Hälfte Öl/Lw. Wiesenlandschaft mit zwei Jagdhunden, sich an einen Fasan ... |
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