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 25.–26.11.2022 Art Nouveau, Art déco and Design | ||||
3007 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. «Deckelvase mit Putten (lidded vase with putti)». Designed in 1902, manufactured ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
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 23.–24.09.2016 Autographs | ||||
3345 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. German painter and graphic artist. L.A.S., Karlsruhe April 1906. Single page 8°. ... | ||||
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4557 (Spring Auctions Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. «Der Fahnenträger (the standard bearer)». Oil on strong wove paper, mounted on ... | starting price: 10000,- EUR | |||
Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
5561 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Thoma, Emil 1869 Zürich-Enge - 1948 Riedering. Portrait of a lady. Oil on canvas. Signed middle left, inscribed «Hans» and ... | ||||
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1713 (Spring Auctions Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. E ´M”dchen mit Kind (girl with a child)ª. Oil on panel. Monogrammed and dated (18)84 ... | ||||
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1938 (Spring Auctions Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. E View onto Bernau. Pencil drawing with ink on paper. Sketch for oil paintings. Lower ... | ||||
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1978 (Spring Auctions Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. E ´Postkarte f¸r das K¸nstlerhaus (postcard for the artists house)ª. Etching. In the ... | ||||
1979 (Spring Auctions Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. E ´Drei Hasen und der L–ffel drei und hat doch jeder seine zwei (three rabbits...)ª. ... | ||||
1980 (Spring Auctions Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. E Black Forest landscape. Lithograph in colours. On the stone monogrammed and ... | ||||
1981 (Spring Auctions Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. E ´Bernauer Feldwege (rural roads near Bernau)ª. Etching. In the plate lower left ... | ||||
1982 (Spring Auctions Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. E Band of angels on clouds. Algraph. In the plate monogrammed lower right. ... | ||||
1985 (Spring Auctions Urkunde zum 50. Jubil”um 1856 - 1906 Certificate for the 50th anniversary 1856 - 1906. Lithograph in colours. Monogrammed by Hans Thoma lower right on the ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010 Glass | ||||
0469 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Glasbild. Farbloses, transparentes Glas, polychrom bemalt, und Blei. Darstellung der ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
1987 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. «Die Brücke». Öl/Holz. In einer grünen von Bäumen und Sträuchern bewachsenen ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010 Old Prints | ||||
2213 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Urkunde zum 50. Jubiläum 1856 - 1906 Farblithographie. Urkunde mit Textteil in Kanzleischrift des 19. Jahrhunderts im Zentrum, im unteren Bildteil ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010 Modern Prints | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2242 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Thoma, Hans nach 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Idyllische Szene mit Mutter und Kind im kleinen Schwarzwaldgarten. Öl und ... | |||
Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
2081 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Öl/Karton. Heimkehrende Kühe. Unter abendlichem Himmel an den Hängen eines ... | ||||
Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010 Modern Prints | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2332 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. «Der Wanderer». Ein Wanderer mit Stock, Hut und nach unten gesenktem ... | |||
Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
1604 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Feder, weiß gehöht/Papier. Spielendes Mädchen. In einem Garten ein sitzendes Mädchen ... | ||||
Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009 Old Prints | ||||
1813 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Druck, partiell koloriert. «Villa Borghese». Darstellung eines Springbrunnens mit ... | starting price: 200,- EUR | |||
Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008 Modern Prints | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2345 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Radierung. «Unterhaltung». Zwei Faune im Geäst, der eine einen Krug in den Händen ... | starting price: 100,- EUR | ||
Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008 Paintings and Drawings 15th to 18th Century | ||||
1675 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Aquarellierte Tuschfederzeichnung. Blick auf idyllische Dorfkirche zwischen Pappeln ... | ||||
1676 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Thoma, Hans 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe. Pastell. Schwarzwaldbächle. Durch Sommerlandschaft in Abendstimmung mäandrierender ... | ||||
Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008 Old Prints | ||||
1856 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Konvolut Graphiken Ende |
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