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 08.–09.12.2017 Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||
Image under artist's copyright. | 3091 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Moderner Landschaftsmaler Modern Landscape painter | starting price: 400,- EUR | ||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2258 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Moderner Maler Modern painter late 20th C. Geometric composition in green. Mixed media and collage on canvas. Indistinctly signed and ... | starting price: 300,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2296 (Spring Auctions 14.–16.06.2012) Schmidt, Winfried Modern painter second half 20th C. «Wie eine Maske (like a mask)». Oil on canvas. Monogrammed and dated (19)89 lower ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 1066 (Autumn Auctions Lingner, W. Modern landscape painter first half 20th C. Park. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Provenance: private property ... | starting price: 800,- EUR | ||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 1818 (Spring Auctions Monogrammist H. Modern painter 20th c. View of Luzern with Jesuit church. Oil on canvas. Monogrammed lower right and with dedication ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2133 (Autumn Auctions 02.–04.12.2010) Monogrammist G.H.B. Moderner Maler Straßenszene. Öl/Lw. Mit pastosem Duktus gemalte Ansicht einer Straße mit ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2132 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Emdorf, (?) von Moderner Landschaftsmaler Öl/Lw. Waldszene. In expressivem Pinselstrich ein Flusslauf inmitten ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2192 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Moderner Maler Öl/Hartfaser. Stillleben mit Blumenvase und schwarzer Skulptur. Vor gelbem Hintergrund auf ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2214 (Spring Auctions 10.–12.06.2010) Richter, (?) Moderner Maler Öl/Lw. Abstrakte Komposition. In pastosem Farbauftrag auf grünlichem Grund ... | |||
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1512 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Moderner Maler Öl/Lw. Abstrakte Komposition. Von Adern durchzogene, wolkig organische Formen mit wenigen ... | ||||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 1743 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Moderner Landschaftsmaler Öl/Lw. Winterlandschaft. Vor einem Waldrand zwei einzelne Bäume in verschneiter Landschaft. ... | starting price: 250,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1793 (Spring Auction 14.–16.05.2009) Weber, Konstantin Moderner Maler Ende Öl/Lw. «Kleines Aschebild I». Nahansicht eines erloschenen Feuers in Grau- ... | starting price: 900,- EUR | ||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2181 (Autumn Auction 27.–29.11.2008) Mankowsky, N. Moderner Maler Öl/Holz. Surrealistische Wüstenlandschaft mit Gebirgsstrukturen und darin ... | starting price: 100,- EUR | ||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 1760 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Mankowsky, N. Moderner Maler Öl/Holz. Surrealistische Wüstenlandschaft mit Gebirgsstrukturen und darin ... | starting price: 200,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1767 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Moderner Aktmaler 1. Hälfte Öl/Lw. Vor grünem Fond auf einem Tisch sitzende weibliche Figur in rotem Rock und ... | starting price: 100,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1768 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Moderner Maler Öl/Lw. Auf rotlackiertem Tisch neben Teeservice üppiger Chrysanthemenstrauß in hoher ... | starting price: 450,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1769 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Moderner Stilllebenmaler Um 1920. Öl/Lw. Vor dunklem Fond in Kugelvase üppiger Wiesenblumenstrauß. U.l. unleserlich sign. und 1928 dat. ... | starting price: 600,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1787 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Schröder, H. Moderner Landschafts- und Vedutenmaler Öl/Lw., doubl. Weg in sommerlicher Burganlage vor ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 1788 (Spring Auction 05.–07.06.2008) Schröder, H. Moderner Landschafts- und Vedutenmaler Öl/Lw. Sommerliche venezianische Vedute mit Blick auf ... | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2172 (Autumn Auction Moderner Aktmaler 1. Hälfte Öl/Lw. Auf einer auf dem nackten Boden liegenden Matratze mit bordeauxrotem Überwurf ... | starting price: 1000,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2173 (Autumn Auction Moderner Landschaftsmaler 1. Hälfte Öl/Karton. Österreichische Gebirgslandschaft mit kleinem Dorf vor beeindruckender ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2174 (Autumn Auction Moderner Maler Öl/Lw. Auf rotlackiertem Tisch neben Teeservice üppiger Chrysanthemenstrauß in hoher ... | starting price: 900,- EUR | ||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2193 (Autumn Auction Scharpf, Manfred Geb. 1945 Kißlegg. Pigmente/Holz. Vor blauem Fond weibliche Figur, ein Stück ihres schwarzen Pullovers mit dem Mund ... | starting price: 5500,- EUR | ||
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2002 (Spring Sale McCarthy, F.B. Moderner Landschaftsmaler um 1900. Öl/Lw. In Vollmondnacht am Ufer neben seinem Boot stehender Fischer, zu einem ... | starting price: 800,- EUR | |||
2111 (Spring Sale Weber, H. Moderner Stilllebenmaler Öl/Lw./Karton. Blumenstillleben mit in hellblauer Balustervase üppig ... | starting price: 200,- EUR | |||
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Image under artist's copyright. | 2150 (Spring Sale Cürten, Ferdinand Carl 1897 Düsseldorf - 1945 ebd. Öl/Karton. Auf den Stufen des Petersdoms. In expressionistischem Duktus ausgeführte ... | |||
Image under artist's copyright. | 2161 (Spring Sale Gilles, W. Moderner Maler 19./ Öl/Hartfaser/Holz. Interieurszene mit weiblichem Akt auf dem Bett sitzend ... |
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