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 20.–21.11.2020 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2020 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Bruni, Bruno Born 1935 Gradara, lives and works in Hanover and Hamburg. «La Sogna». Golden brown patinated bronze, partially ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2021 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Bruni, Bruno Born 1935 Gradara, lives and works in Hanover and Hamburg. «La Sola». Golden brown patinated bronze, partially ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2022 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Bruni, Bruno Born 1935 Gradara, lives and works in Hanover and Hamburg. «Mignon». 1994. Brown patinated bronze. Signed under ... | starting price: 250,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2023 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Bruni, Bruno Born 1935 Gradara, lives and works in Hanover and Hamburg. «Danae». Golden brown patinated bronze, partially ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2121 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Wunderlich, Paul 1927 Eberswalde - 2010 Saint-Pierre-de-Vassols. «Paperweight». 1994. Golden brown patinated bronze, partially ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2122 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Wunderlich, Paul 1927 Eberswalde - 2010 Saint-Pierre-de-Vassols. «Kleine Eva (small Eva)». 1998. Golden brown patinated bronze. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2214 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Wilding, Ludwig 1927 Grünstadt - 2010 Buchholz. «Single PS 7b». Lauf Objekt. Serigraph on acrylic glass in front of a serigraph ... | |||
Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020 Art Nouveau, Art déco and Design | ||||
3021 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Cockatoo with ball Model by Max Daniel Hermann Fritz (1873 - 1948) for Schaubach-Kunst, Wallendorf | ||||
Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2079 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Arakawa, Shusaku 1936 Nagoya - 2010 New York. «Untitled». Acrylic with pencil on canvas. Signed lower middle, titled and dated 1968. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2097 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Bruni, Bruno Geb. 1935 Gradara, lebt und arbeitet in Hamburg. «Quasi Nuda». 1992. Golden brown patinated bronze, partially ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2098 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Bruni, Bruno Geb. 1935 Gradara, lebt und arbeitet in Hamburg. «La Caduta». 1990. Golden brown patinated bronze, partially gilt ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2109 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Collien, Peter Geb. 1938 Berlin, lebt und arbeitet in Berlin. «Die Schlucht und das Einhorn (the canyon and the unicorn)». Oil on ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2123 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Geiger, Rupprecht 1908 München - 2009 ebd. «Komposition Grau-Rot (composition grey-red)». Coloured chalk and graphite on strong ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2150 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hoffmann, Helmut 1928 Peiting - 1998 Eschenlohe. «Knabe mit Hund im Winter (boy with dog in winter)». Mixed media on canvas. Signed ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2151 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hofkunst, Alfred 1942 Wien - 2004 Montet-sur-Cudrefin. «Liegende (reclining figure)». Mixed media with sand on canvas. Signed lower ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2152 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hofkunst, Alfred 1942 Wien - 2004 Montet-sur-Cudrefin. «Schwebender Körper (floating body)» (white on green). Mixed media with sand ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2153 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hofkunst, Alfred 1942 Wien - 2004 Montet-sur-Cudrefin. «Schwebender Körper (floating body)» (white on yellow). Pencil over ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2217 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Scheibe, Emil Jürgen 1914 München - 2008 ebd. «Ausglühende Schlackenpfanne (annealing slag ladle)». Mixed media, oil and slag on ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2240 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Tàpies, Antoni 1923 Barcelona - 2012 ebd. Untitled, from «Kunst und Spiritualität. Moderne Kunst, Mystik und Humor (art and ... | |||
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3321 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. «Säckingen». Circa 1870. Oil on canvas. Monogrammed lower right. Isolated paint loss. ... | ||||
3322 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. «Am Rhein bei Säckingen (the Rhine near Säckingen)». Oil on canvas. Monogrammed lower ... | ||||
3323 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. «Frühlingslandschaft (spring landscape)». Oil on cardboard. Monogrammed lower right ... | ||||
3324 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. «Südliche See (southern sea)». Oil on canvas, relined. Monogrammed lower left and ... | ||||
3325 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. «Amor und Tod (Cupid and Death)». Oil on structured cardboard, mounted on cardboard. ... | ||||
3326 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. «Märchenerzählerin (story teller)». Circa 1893. Oil over tachography on wove paper, ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015 Art of Antiquity | ||||
3089 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Große Holzfigur eines Uschebti Large wooden figure of an Uschebti. Egypt | ||||
Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015 Objects of Vertu, Collectibles and Memorabilia | ||||
4227 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Memento-mori-Totenkopf Memento mori skull with fold-down jaw. Probably Germany 17th/ | ||||
Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
4290 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Baum, Carl 1892 Frankfurt a.M. - 1966 «Saig i. Schwarzwald». India ink drawing over pencil, ... | ||||
4404 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Pellar, Hanns 1886 Wien - 1971 ebd. «Yvette». Oil on panel. Signed lower right, dated 1912 and titled. Verso several old labels ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2128 (Autumn Auctions Laves, Werner 1903 Berlin - 1972 ebd. «Blick auf die Grunewaldstraße (view of Grunewaldstraße)». Oil on canvas. Signed lower ... |
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