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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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Weiwei, Ai
Geb. 1957 Peking, lebt und arbeitet in Peking und Berlin.
«Rocks».
In 2011, Gallery Neugerriemschneider in Berlin presented for the very first time the «Rocks» together with the «Trees», two monumental bare and barkless tree sculptures from dead, reassembled wood. The artist had the porcelain stones of the installation being produced in the Chinese town of Jingdezhen, where porcelain pottery has been made for more than 1700 years. Due to their form, the white glazed sculptures, painted with blue bands of clouds at their surface, are appearing like Taihu-stones, traditional Chinese garden rocks, which are decorating the landscape either individually or arranged in groups. In addition to these formal-aesthetical aspects and characteristics of Ai Weiwei's works, there are also conceptual and philosophical references to the Chinese history and present intended and visible.
Authentication: Gallery Urs Meile, Beijing/Luzern, May 2012.
Provenance: purchased at Gallery Urs Meile, Beijing/Luzern; since then private collection Baden-Wuerttemberg.
Geb. 1957 Peking, lebt und arbeitet in Peking und Berlin.
«Rocks».
H. 11
Die «Rocks» wurden erstmals 2011 gemeinsam mit den «Trees», zwei monumentalen kahlen und rindenlosen Baumskulpturen aus totem, neu zusammengefügten Holz, in der Galerie Neugerriemschneider in Berlin präsentiert. Die Porzellansteine der Installation ließ der Künstler in der chinesischen Stadt Jingdezhen produzieren, die auf eine mehr als 1700-jährige Tradition in der Porzellanmanufaktur zurückblickt. Die weiß glasierten, auf ihrer Oberfläche mit blauen Wolkenbändern verzierten Plastiken erinnern in ihrer Form an Taihu-Steine, traditionelle chinesische Gartenfelsen, die einzeln stehend oder in Gruppen arrangiert die Landschaft mitgestalten. Neben diesen formalästhetischen Aspekten sind - charakteristisch für die Werke Ai Weiweis - auch konzeptionell-philosophische Bezüge zur chinesischen Geschichte und Gegenwart intendiert und erkennbar.
Authentifizierung: Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing/Luzern, Mai 2012.
Provenienz: erworben in der Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing/Luzern; seitdem Privatsammlung Baden-Württemberg.