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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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Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl
1884 Rottluff - 1976 Berlin.
E «Anemonen». 1962. Watercolour on paper. Work number 6257 lower left in pencil and signed lower right. Verso titled and probably numbered 63/55 by the artist. Verso traces of mounting on the margin. Passepartout. Authentication: Mrs Christiane Remm, archive Brücke Museum/Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff foundation, Berlin, via e-mail, based on photos. The painting is listed in the archive Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff foundation. Provenance: private collection Baden.
1884 Rottluff - 1976 Berlin.
«Anemonen». 1962. Aquarell/Papier. In ausdrucksstark leuchtenden Farben gemaltes Stillleben mit roten und violetten Anemonen in einer braunen Steinvase, daneben ein blaues Glasgefäß sowie eine längliche Keramikvase in Grün-, Blau- und Brauntönen auf einer braun-roséfarbenen Tischdecke. Mit Bleistift u.l. Werknr. 6257 sowie u.r. sign. Verso bet. und wahrscheinlich von Künstlerhand 63/55 num. Verso Montierungsspuren im Randbereich. H. 50, B. 69,1 cm (Darstellung und Blattgröße). Passepartout.
Echtheitsbestätigung: Frau Christiane Remm, Archiv Brücke Museum/Karl und Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Stiftung, Berlin, via E-Mail, anhand von Photos. Das Aquarell ist im Archiv Karl und Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Stiftung registriert.
Schon früh entwickelte Schmidt-Rottluff, der als Wegbereiter des Deutschen Expressionismus gilt, eine besondere Vorliebe für das Aquarell. Dieses Medium entsprach seinem Wunsch in idealer Weise nach einer spontanen, großzügig vereinfachenden und farbenfroh leuchtenden Malerei. So entstanden bis in die späten 1960er Jahre hinein eindrucksvolle Kompositionen, meist Landschaftsbilder und Stillleben, wie auch die Anemonen. Sie spiegeln wider, was schon den jungen Künstler bewegte: «… das zu fassen, was ich sehe und fühle, und dafür den reinsten Ausdruck zu finden».
Provenienz: badische Privatsammlung.