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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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Picasso, Pablo
1881 Málaga - 1973 Mougins.
«Eros». Blue ink on paper, mounted on backing cardboard. Signed upper middle, dated «25. 5. 69.» and inscribed «Louis Gaussen». Isolated merest creasing, slightly light-stained. In addition exhibition catalogue «Picasso - Arbeiten auf Papier, Hommage zum 125. Geburtstag 1881 - 2006» with an illustration of the drawing (titled) and a dedication of the author Prof. Dr. Roland Doschka to the consignor.
H 16, W 16 cm (sheet).
«The late work of Picasso is characterised by works varying the ageless issue ‹painter and model›, being of lively eroticism. Particularly interesting is the dual presentation of the woman as a stylised flower on the left and next to it as a veristic figure in inviting pose. Picasso is painter and yet a voyeur.» (Prof. Dr. Roland Doschka, Picasso - Arbeiten auf Papier, Hommage zum 125. Geburtstag 1881 - 2006, no. 42).
Authentication: We would like to thank Prof. Dr. Roland Doschka for the scientific consultation via telephone, 06.04.2016.
Provenance: collection Adolphe Louis Gaussen; then private collection Prof. Dr. Roland Doschka, Reutlingen; since then private collection South Germany.
The French painter Adolphe Louis Gaussen maintained an art collection besides to his own artistic work, being pursued after his death in 1954. It can be presumed that the drawing has been created explicitly for his collection, for the name Gaussen is legible in a prominent position.
Prof. Dr. Roland Doschka, former Academic Council of the University Freiburg i.Br., planned several exhibitions of Classical Modernism as a curator of the Balinger Kunsthalle. Thanks to his friendship with Picasso, he could display works in his exhibitions that the public has rarely seen.
Proof of purchase: Prof. Dr. Roland Doschka, Rottenburg, 30.07.2007, in copy.
Exhibition: Picasso - Arbeiten auf Papier, Hommage zum 125. Geburtstag 1881 - 2006, Tübingen, Kreissparkasse Am Lustnauer Tor, 2006.
Literature: Prof. Dr. Roland Doschka, Picasso - Arbeiten auf Papier, Hommage zum 125. Geburtstag 1881 - 2006, Reutlingen, no. 42, © Succession Picasso 2006, Edition Kittelberger, Reutlingen.

deutsch 1881 Málaga - 1973 Mougins.
«Eros». Blaue Tinte auf Papier, auf Unterlagekarton montiert. Mitte o. sign., «26.5.69.» dat. und bez. «Louis Gaussen». Vereinzelte, kleinste Knicke, min. lichtrandig.
Dazu der Ausstellungskatalog «Picasso - Arbeiten auf Papier, Hommage zum 125. Geburtstag 1881 - 2006» mit Abbildung der Zeichnung (bet.) und persönlicher Widmung des Autors Prof. Dr. Roland Doschka an den Einlieferer.
H. 16, B. 16 cm (Blattgröße).
«Das Spätwerk Picassos ist gekennzeichnet von Arbeiten, die das ewig junge Thema ‹Maler und Modell› variieren und die mitunter von sprühender Erotik sind. Interessant an dieser Zeichnung ist die doppelte Darstellung der Frau, zum einen als stilisierte Blume links und daneben veristisch in einladender Pose. Picasso wird zum Maler und Voyeur zugleich.» (Prof. Dr. Roland Doschka, Picasso - Arbeiten auf Papier, Hommage zum 125. Geburtstag 1881 - 2006, Kat.Nr. 42).
Authentifizierung: Wir danken Herrn Prof. Dr. Roland Doschka, Reutlingen, für die wissenschaftliche Beratung via Telefon, März 2018.
Provenienz: Sammlung Adolphe Louis Gaussen; danach Privatsammlung Prof. Dr. Roland Doschka, Reutlingen; seitdem Privatsammlung Süddeutschland.
Der französische Maler Adolphe Louis Gaussen unterhielt neben seiner eigenen Malertätigkeit eine Kunstsammlung, welche nach seinem Tod 1954 weitergeführt wurde. Die Vermutung liegt nahe, dass die Zeichnung explizit für seine Sammlung geschaffen wurde, ist doch der Name Gaussens an prominenter Stelle zu lesen.
Prof. Dr. Roland Doschka, ehemaliger akademischer Rat der Universität Freiburg i.Br., organisierte als Kurator der Balinger Kunsthalle zahlreiche Ausstellungen zur Klassischen Moderne. Er konnte durch seine Freundschaft mit Picasso Werke ausstellen, die die Öffentlichkeit bisher selten zu Gesicht bekam.
Kaufbeleg: Prof. Dr. Roland Doschka, Rottenburg, 30.07.2007, in Kopie.
Ausstellung: Picasso - Arbeiten auf Papier, Hommage zum 125. Geburtstag 1881 - 2006, Tübingen, Kreissparkasse Am Lustnauer Tor, 2006.
Literatur: Prof. Dr. Roland Doschka, Picasso - Arbeiten auf Papier, Hommage zum 125. Geburtstag 1881 - 2006, Reutlingen, Kat.Nr. 42, © Succession Picasso 2006, Edition Kittelberger, Reutlingen.

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