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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Image under artist's copyright. | 3020 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Acht, René 1920 Basel - 1998 Herbolzheim. «Haus in den Wolken (house in the sky)». Oil on canvas. Verso signed, dated ... | starting price: 1000,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3021 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Acht, René 1920 Basel - 1998 Herbolzheim. «Haus (house)». Cut-out made of black photo cardboard and Mixacolor coloured ... | starting price: 200,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3022 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Acht, René 1920 Basel - 1998 Herbolzheim. Untitled. Cube-house. Cut-out made of thin fleece and charcoal on wove paper. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3023 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Acht, René 1920 Basel - 1998 Herbolzheim. «Plastik | starting price: 400,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3024 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Acht, René 1920 Basel - 1998 Herbolzheim. Untitled. Cut-out made of black photo cardboard on wove paper. Signed lower left ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3025 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Acht, René 1920 Basel - 1998 Herbolzheim. Untitled. Cut-out made of black photo cardboard, tissue paper and string on ... | starting price: 400,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3026 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Acht, René 1920 Basel - 1998 Herbolzheim. Untitled. Cut-out made of black photo cardboard, tissue paper and string on ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3027 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Acht, René 1920 Basel - 1998 Herbolzheim. Untitled. Cube-Cross-Form-Fold. Mixed media with watercolour, gouache, felt-tip ... | |||
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3178 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Pietà in Baroque shrine Probably South Germany | ||||
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3223 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Hackert, Jakob Philipp 1737 Prenzlau - 1807 San Piero di Careggi. Two oak trees near Ariccia. Pencil and India ink, partially washed, ... | ||||
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3269 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Blick v. Blößling z. Wacht (view from the Blößling to the ... | ||||
3270 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Pentaptych with snow-covered Black Forest landscape. Oil on ... | ||||
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3131 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Striding angel South Germany circa 1900. Carved wood in relief, painted in polychrome colours and partially silvered and gilt. A ... | ||||
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3251 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Chorale book manuscript Handwritten manuscript. 174 | ||||
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3268 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Heiliger Nikolaus mit Konsole Saint Nicholas with bracket. Probably South Germany 17th/ | ||||
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3244 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hasemann, Wilhelm Gustav F. 1850 Mühlberg - 1913 Gutach. «Die Mühlenbacherin». Oil on canvas. Signed upper left and inscribed «Karlsruhe». ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2246 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Stoll, Artur 1947 Composition in yellow, green and black. Gouache on machine ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2073 (Autumn Auctions Christo, d.i. Christo Javacheff Geb. 1935 Gabrovo, lebt und arbeitet in New York. «Wrapped Trees, Project for the Fondation Beyeler and Berower ... | |||
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4548 (Autumn Auctions Kafka, Franz 1883 - 1924. German writer. L.A.S. «F». (Planá nad LuÏnici [arrival mark Prag:] 11.IX.1922.). Two double ... | ||||
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4550 (Autumn Auctions Biblia Preface by Johann Michael Dilherrns. Published by Endter's heirs, Nuremberg 1710. With numerous woodcuts and copper ... | starting price: 500,- EUR | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2000 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Bakst, Léon 1866 Grodno - 1924 Paris. Maiden. Mixed media on paper. Signed and dated 1912 lower right. Passepartout. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2008 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Braque, Georges 1882 Argenteuil-sur-Seine - 1963 Paris. «Pichet noir et citrons». Maeght 1004. Aquatint in colours. In the plate ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2013 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Chagall, Marc 1889 Witebsk - 1985 Vence. «Hommage à Elsa Triolet». Lithograph in colours. Numbered 110/200 lower left and signed ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2030 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Erté 1892 St. Petersburg - 1990 Paris. Lady in evening dress. Gouache on paper. Signed lower right. Minor traces of ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2034 (Autumn Auctions 06.–08.12.2012) Heckel, Erich 1883 Döbeln - 1970 Radolfzell. «Kanal bei Ostende (canal near Ostende)». Drypoint. In the plate monogrammed and ... |
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