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. | 2053 (Autumn Auctions Schnarrenberger, Wilhelm 1892 Buchen - 1966 Karlsruhe. «Azaleen (azalea)» Oil on canvas. Signed lower left and dated (19)42. Authentication: ... | |||
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2528 (Autumn Sale Zorn, Ludwig 1865 Wertheim - 1921 Freiburg i.Br. Öl/Lw. See in sommerlicher Morgenstimmung. U.r. sign. und 1920 dat. Risse, ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2327 (Winter Sale Schnarrenberger, Wilhelm 1892 Buchen - 1966 Karlsruhe. Öl/Lw. Szene im Park. Lichtdurchflutete südliche Parkanlage, unter Mimosenbäumen ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2328 (Winter Sale Schnarrenberger, Wilhelm 1892 Buchen - 1966 Karlsruhe. Öl/Lw. Terrasse in Rom. Blick auf sandige Parkterrasse mit figurenschmückter ... | starting price: 7000,- EUR | ||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2506 (Winter Sale Schnarrenberger, Wilhelm 1892 Buchen - 1966 Karlsruhe. Lithographie. «Jagd auf Dicke». Szene mit über die Straße jagender Menschenhorde. U. ... | starting price: 200,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2507 (Winter Sale Schnarrenberger, Wilhelm 1892 Buchen - 1966 Karlsruhe. Lithographie. «Exotische Landschaft». Besucher im botanischen Garten. Im Stein o.r. ... | |||
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1715 (Autumn Sale Balmer, Joseph. A. 1828 Abtwil - 1918 Luzern. Kolorierte und lavierte Tuschezeichnung. Aus bekröntem barockem Altarretabel ... | starting price: 600,- EUR | |||
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1986 (Spring Sale Göhler, Hermann 1874 Neustadt a.d.H. - 1959 Karlsruhe. Öl/Malkarton. "Bootssteg am Tegernsee". U.r. sign. Verso auf Etikett bet., ... | ||||
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2335 (Autumn Sale Gagel, Karl August 1861 Heidelberg - 1916 Karlsruhe. Öl/Lw. "Der Weinspezialist im Keller". Bärtiger alter Weinbauer, umgeben von ... | starting price: 600,- EUR | |||
2463 (Autumn Sale Laible, Otto 1898 Haslach im Kinzigtal - 1962 Karlsruhe. Aquarell. Schwarzwaldhof mit Brennhäusle im Kinzigtal, im Vordergrund ... | starting price: 500,- EUR |
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