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. | 2082 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) «Netter Art Collection»E DDDD«Netter Art Collection» The Ciba Collection of Medical Illustrations. Neun Farbatlanten der Medizin ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2103 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Salentin, Hans 1925 Düren - 2009 Cologne. «ohne Titel (Krankenschwester) (untitled, nurse)». Cibachrome reprography, refined, ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2104 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Salentin, Hans 1925 Düren - 2009 Cologne. «Laborfigur II (lab figure II)». Cibachrome reprography, refined, pressed on canvas. ... | |||
Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3321 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Spitzweg, Carl 1808 Munich - 1885 ibid. Standing male nude, javelin thrower. Circa | starting price: 1500,- EUR | |||
3322 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Spitzweg, Carl 1808 Munich - 1885 ibid. Sitting male nude with anatomical sketch. Circa | starting price: 2000,- EUR | |||
3323 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Spitzweg, Carl 1808 Munich - 1885 ibid. Standing female nude, torso. Circa | starting price: 2000,- EUR | |||
3324 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Spitzweg, Carl 1808 Munich - 1885 ibid. Standing male nude, seen from behind. Circa | starting price: 2000,- EUR | |||
3325 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Spitzweg, Carl 1808 Munich - 1885 ibid. Sitting male nude, turning away from the viewer. Circa | starting price: 2000,- EUR | |||
3326 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Spitzweg, Carl 1808 Munich - 1885 ibid. Reclining male nude, young man. Circa | ||||
Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018 Paintings and Drawings 15th to 18th Century | ||||
3364 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Ach, Hans Hausser von attr. Palatinate or Middle Rhine circa 1600. Conversion of Saint Paul. Oil on copper. Unsigned. H 27, W 32 cm. Hans ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3403 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Benz, Otto 1933 Stuttgart - 1999 Ibiza. Monkey & horse. Five drawings probably for a campaign of Verkehrsverbund Stuttgart. ... | ||||
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4353 (Spring Auctions Mythologischer Zeichner Mythological drawer probably Italy second half | ||||
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4497 (Spring Auctions Monogrammist E.L. German painter and drawer probably 19th/ | ||||
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4594 (Spring Auctions The Doings of Happy Hooligan Cartoonist Frederick Burr Opper. Published by William Randolph Hearst as comic strip for the New York Journal, New ... | starting price: 150,- EUR | |||
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4429 (Autumn Auctions Rötelzeichner Sanguine 18th/ | starting price: 500,- EUR | |||
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4553 (Autumn Auctions The Doings of Happy Hooligan Cartoonist Frederick Burr Opper, | starting price: 300,- EUR | |||
Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2139 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Chillida, Eduardo 1924 San Sebastian - 2002 ebd. «Gravitation». 1996. Ink on paper with thread. Signed lower right. Verso exhibition ... | |||
Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012 Works on Paper | ||||
4749 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Italienischer Meister Italian master 18th C. or later. Portrait of a youth. Red chalk drawing on paper. Unsigned. Traces of creasing, ... | ||||
4750 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Monogrammist H.H. Draughtsman 19th C. Medusas head. Pencil on paper. Monogrammed lower right. DDDDZeichner 19. Jh. Kopf der ... | starting price: 250,- EUR | |||
4752 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Rötelzeichner Draghtsman 19th C. Doubting Thomas. Ink and red chalk on paper with opaque white. Unsigned. After a painting by Peter ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 1025 (Autumn Auctions Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. «Médiéval». Felt-tip pen. Signed and dated 1959 lower right. Minor ... | |||
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2666 (Autumn Auctions Carrier-Belleuse, Albert-Ernest 1824 Anizy-le-Château - 1887 Sèvres. «Liseuse», standing figure of a young woman reading. Bronze, patinated in ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
1979 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Spitzweg, Carl 1808 München - 1885 ebd. «Die Musik kommt (nächtliche Runde)». Öl/Karton. Im Vordergrund eine steinerne Brücke, ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2049 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Cocteau, Jean 1892 Maisons-Laffitte - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt. «Médiéval». Filzschreiber. Profilansicht eines Junkers vor dem ... | |||
Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010 Paintings and Drawings 15th to 18th Century | ||||
1812 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Zschaschler, (?) Architekturzeichner Ende 13 Zeichnungen, teilweise koloriert. Aufriss der Fassade einer ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 26.–28.11.2009 Paintings and Drawings 15th to 18th Century | ||||
2052 (Autumn Auctions 26.–28.11.2009) Zeichner Feder und Sepia/Papier. Segnender König. Auf einem Thron ein König inmitten seines Hofstaats, ... | ||||
2053 (Autumn Auctions 26.–28.11.2009) Zeichner 18./ Feder/Papier. Herr in der Wirtschaft. An einem Tisch mit Krug ein Raucher, in einer Luke ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | |||
Autumn Auctions 26.–28.11.2009 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
2239 (Autumn Auctions 26.–28.11.2009) Lemaire, H. Zeichner Kohle/Papier, auf Karton aufgezogen. Der Hl. Franziskus beschützt die Welt vor dem ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | |||
2263 (Autumn Auctions 26.–28.11.2009) Miller, Alfred Jacob 1810 Baltimore - 1874 ebd. Bleistift und Bister/Papier. Indianer. Vor einem brennenden Gebüsch drei flüchtende ... | ||||
2334 (Autumn Auctions 26.–28.11.2009) Spitzweg, Carl 1808 München - 1885 ebd. Öl/Lw., doubl. «Auf der Bastei». Das Querformat in Form eines gedehnten Rechtecks zeigt ... | starting price: 350000,- EUR |
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