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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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Wentzinger, Johann Christian attr.
1710 Ehrenstetten - 1797
Two counterparts. Jesus Christ and God the Father. Carved lime wood with hollowed backsides and remnants of old polychromy. Jesus Christ with his stigmata and God the Father leaning on the globe, each floating on a cloud. Verso two old labels with the work's data and the inventory
H 114 respectively 117, W 66 respectively 72 cm.
Johann Christian Wentzinger worked as a sculptor, painter and architect, but primarily as an art entrepreneur. Supported by the Benedictine abbots of the Black Forest monasteries, he quickly became a popular artist in Southwest Germany. When furnishing the collegiate church in St. Gallen, his workshop was foremost responsible for the sculptural work and Wentzinger finally became a highly respected and wealthy citizen of Freiburg due to his growing affluence.
Provenance: private collection
Literature: Ingeborg Krummer-Schroth, Johann Christian Wentzinger, Bildhauer - Maler - Architekt, 
1710 Ehrenstetten - 1797
Paar Gegenstücke. Jesus Christus und Gottvater. Lindenholz, halbrund geschnitzt und rückseitig gehöhlt, mit Resten alter Fassung. Jesus Christus mit den Wundmalen und Gottvater auf die Weltkugel gestützt, je auf einer Wolke schwebend. Verso zwei alte Etiketten mit den Angaben zum Werk und der Inventar-Nr. «K 463» sowie bez. «Unverkäuflich». Altersspuren, Fehlstellen, wurmstichig. Ein Arm Jesu und eine Hand Gottes fehlen.
H. 114 bzw.
Johann Christian Wentzinger war als Bildhauer, Maler und auch Architekt, in erster Linie aber als Kunstunternehmer tätig. Gefördert von den Benediktineräbten der Schwarzwaldklöster, wurde er schnell zum gesuchten Künstler in Südwestdeutschland. Bei der Ausstattung der Stiftskirche in St. Gallen war seine Werkstatt führend für die bildhauerischen Arbeiten zuständig, was Wentzinger zu beachtlichem Wohlstand verhalf und ihn endgültig zu einem hochgeachteten und reichen Bürger Freiburgs machte.
Provenienz: Privatsammlung
Literatur: Ingeborg Krummer-Schroth, Johann Christian Wentzinger, Bildhauer - Maler - Architekt,