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 19.–20.11.2021 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2138 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Mack, Heinz Born 1931 Lollar, lives and works in Mönchengladbach and Ibiza. «Made in Silver». Collage from embossed metal ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2139 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Mack, Heinz Born 1931 Lollar, lives and works in Mönchengladbach and Ibiza. «Regenbogen (rainbow)». Serigraph in 27 colours ... | |||
Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2177 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Mack, Heinz Geb. 1931 Lollar, lebt und arbeitet in Mönchengladbach und auf Ibiza. «Silberrotor (silver rotor)». 1971. Serigraph ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2178 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Mack, Heinz Geb. 1931 Lollar, lebt und arbeitet in Mönchengladbach und auf Ibiza. «Kombinationsspiel (combination game)». 1970. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2179 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Mack, Heinz Geb. 1931 Lollar, lebt und arbeitet in Mönchengladbach und auf Ibiza. «Silbervibration (silver vibration)». Blind ... | |||
Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3090 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Mack, Heinz Geb. 1931 Lollar, lebt und arbeitet in Mönchengladbach und auf Ibiza. «Sichtbar - Unsichtbar (visible - ... | |||
Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2137 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Mack, Heinz Geb. 1931 Lollar, lebt und arbeitet in Mönchengladbach und auf Ibiza. «Regenbogen (rainbow)». Screen print in ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2138 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Mack, Heinz Geb. 1931 Lollar, lebt und arbeitet in Mönchengladbach und auf Ibiza. «Lichtwirbel - Doppelblattmontage». Screen ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2139 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Mack, Heinz Geb. 1931 Lollar, lebt und arbeitet in Mönchengladbach und auf Ibiza. «Kleiner Flügel (small wing)». Screen print ... | |||
Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2209 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Mack, Heinz Geb. 1931 Lollar, lebt und arbeitet in Mönchengladbach und Ibiza. «Sichtbar - Unsichtbar (visible - invisible)». ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2133 (Autumn Auctions Mack, Heinz Geb. 1931 Lollar, lebt und arbeitet in Mönchengladbach und Ibiza. «Farb-Akkord (colour-chord)». Screen print in ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2134 (Autumn Auctions Mack, Heinz Geb. 1931 Lollar, lebt und arbeitet in Mönchengladbach und Ibiza. «Blaues Fenster (blue window)». Screen print in ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2194 (Autumn Auctions Mack, Heinz Geb. 1931 Lollar. «Lichtrelief I aus Honeycomb-Aluminium (light relief I)». 1962/2006. C-print on aluminium plate ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2195 (Autumn Auctions Mack, Heinz Geb. 1931 Lollar. «Lichtrelief II aus Honeycomb-Aluminium (light relief II)». 1962/2006. C-print on aluminium plate ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2289 (Autumn Auctions Mappenwerk «Zero» Portfolio «zero». Published by Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover 1966. Portfolio with preface, imprint and three embossed ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2290 (Autumn Auctions Mappenwerk «Kinderstern» Portfolio «Kinderstern (children star)». Published by Michael Domberger, Filderstadt 1989. Original map with two ... | |||
Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2253 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Mack, Heinz Born 1931 Lollar. E Sheet from «La lune en rodage I». Etching. Signed and dated (19)59 lower right in pencil. ... | |||
Autumn Auctions | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1280 (Autumn Auctions Mack, Heinz Born 1931 Lollar. Structure. Pencil on paper. Signed and dated (19)64 upper middle in pencil. Passepartout. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1386 (Autumn Auctions La lune en rodage I Edition Panderma, Carl Laszlo, Basel 1960. Collected volume of original drawings, collages, smoke drawings, paper ... |
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