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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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Weber, Hermann
Born 1959 Biberach.
«Masker XI». Mixed media and collage on paper. Numbered XI lower left in pencil. Upper left paper embossing with ram's head and lower right paper embossing «1590 LANA». Verso signed and dated 2007 in pencil. Provenance: purchased directly from the artist; since then in private collection. Literature: Hermann Weber, regardez - Dix ans Hermann Weber, Galerie GNG Gilles Naudin Paris, Kehrer, Heidelberg and Berlin 2010, iIl. p. 153.
Geb. 1959 Biberach.
«Masker XI». Mischtechnik und Collage/Papier. Frei schwebendes Maskengesicht mit kreisrunden großen Augen in der violetten oberen Gesichtshälfte und einem kleinen runden Mund in der schwarzen unteren Gesichtspartie. Mit Bleistift u.l. XI num. O.l. Papierprägung mit umgedrehtem Widderkopf sowie u.r. Papierprägung «1590 LANA». Verso mit Bleistift sign. und 2007 dat. H. 74,5, B. 54 cm (Blattgröße).
Die Collage stammt aus dem Zyklus «Masker», das afrikanische Wort für Masken, aus dem Jahr 2007, die den Aspekt des Verstellens, des Täuschens und Vorgaukelns in den Mittelpunkt des motivischen Interesses stellt. Der Titel wurde bewusst als Hommage an die afrikanische Kunst gewählt, um sowohl die kulturelle Bedeutung Afrikas als auch die Mechanismen der europäischen Kolonialisierung und Unterdrückung des afrikanischen Kontinents aus heutiger Sicht zu reflektieren.
«Das Tier, das lautlos in dir brüllt/Und das Gesicht, das sich in Schweigen hüllt/Gott ist kein Mann, auch keine Frau/Er geht als dunkles Tier/in jedem Mensch, in dir und mir» «Masker» von Hermann Weber, 2010.
Provenienz: direkt vom Künstler erworben; seitdem in Privatsammlung.
Literatur: Hermann Weber, regardez - Dix ans Hermann Weber, Galerie GNG Gilles Naudin Paris, Kehrer, Heidelberg und Berlin 2010, Abb. S. 153.