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. | 2036 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Vogeler, Heinrich 1872 Bremen - 1942 Karaganda/Kazakhstan. «Der Barkenhoff». Etching in brown presumably on Japon. Signed lower ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2037 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Vogeler, Heinrich 1872 Bremen - 1942 Karaganda/Kazakhstan. «Um Mittag (around noon)». 1907. Etching and aquatint in brown on ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2038 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Vogeler, Heinrich 1872 Bremen - 1942 Karaganda/Kazakhstan. «Ex Libris Marie Vogeler I». 1903. Etching in brown on chamois laid ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2039 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Vogeler, Heinrich 1872 Bremen - 1942 Karaganda/Kazakhstan. Ex libris «Barkenhoff». 1896. Etching in brown on chamois laid paper. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2040 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Vogeler, Heinrich 1872 Bremen - 1942 Karaganda/Kazakhstan. «Erster Sommer (first summer)». 1904. Etching in brown on light, ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2041 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Vogeler, Heinrich 1872 Bremen - 1942 Karaganda/Kazakhstan. «Die Schlangenbraut (the snake bride)». 1894. Etching in green on laid ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2042 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Vogeler, Heinrich 1872 Bremen - 1942 Karaganda/Kazakhstan. «Die Nymphe (the nymph)». 1907. Etching in green on laid cardboard. ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2043 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Vogeler, Heinrich 1872 Bremen - 1942 Karaganda/Kazakhstan. «Märchen (Die Hirtin) (fairy tale, the shepherdess)». 1895. Etching in ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2037 (Spring Auctions Vogeler, Heinrich 1872 Bremen - 1942 Vorosilovsk. «Die sieben Schalen des Zorns/Offenbarung Johannis (the seven bowls of God's ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2350 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Jahresmappe der Gesellschaft für vervielfältigende Kunst in Wien, Jahrgänge 1897 - 1922 47 Radierungen, Farblithographien, Farbalgraphien, Farbholzschnitte, teilweise mehrfarbig oder koloriert. Darunter ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2353 (Spring Sale Vogeler, Heinrich 1872 Bremen - 1942 Vorosilovsk. Radierung. An einem Bach stehendes Mädchen, eine Blütengirlande in Händen haltend. ... | starting price: 3500,- EUR | ||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2972 (Autumn Sale Vogeler, Heinrich 1872 Bremen - 1942 Kasachstan. Radierung. "Exlibris Jenne Eggert". In Jugendstilrahmung Ovalbildnis mit auf das ... |
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