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 24.11–25.11.2023 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
2153 (Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Bernau Riggenbach». Around 1926. Oil on canvas, relined. ... | ||||
Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3220 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Frühling im Schwarzwald. (spring in the Black Forest.)». Farm on ... | ||||
3229 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Blick ins große Kappeler Tal Frühling (view of the great ... | starting price: 900,- EUR | |||
3231 (Winter Auctions 25.–26.11.2022) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «‹Aufziehendes Gewitter› (Bernau) (approaching thunderstorm in ... | starting price: 900,- EUR | |||
Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3330 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Thaw in the Black Forest. Oil on canvas, mounted on plywood. ... | ||||
3342 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Weiden bei Haslach (willows near Haslach)». Circa 1923. Oil ... | ||||
3346 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Blick ins große Kapplertal (view of the great ... | starting price: 1250,- EUR | |||
3364 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Aufziehendes Gewitter (Bernau) (approaching thunderstorm in ... | starting price: 1100,- EUR | |||
3366 (Winter Auctions 19.–20.11.2021) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Autumnal view of the Wiesental. Oil on canvas. Signed lower ... | ||||
Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3281 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Blick ins große Kapplertal (view of the great ... | starting price: 1800,- EUR | |||
3283 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Aufziehendes Gewitter (Bernau) (approaching thunderstorm in ... | starting price: 1500,- EUR | |||
3284 (Winter Auctions 20.–21.11.2020) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Weiden bei Haslach (willows near Haslach)». Circa 1923. Oil ... | starting price: 1500,- EUR | |||
Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3194 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 View from the Feldberg to the Herzogenhorn in the evening ... | ||||
3204 (Jubilee Auctions 06.–07.12.2019) Heffner, Julius 1877 Bretzingen - 1951 «Todtnauer Hütte». View of the Herzogenhorn. Circa 1920. ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3439 (Autumn Auctions 19.–20.10.2018) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 Two snow-covered farms in the evening sun. Oil on canvas. Signed ... | ||||
Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
2091 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Fehrle, P.K. Black Forest painter 19th/ | ||||
2097 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Wintertag in Ettersbach. Schwarzwald (winter's day at ... | ||||
2099 (Winter Auctions 08.–09.12.2017) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Im kleinen Wiesental (at the small Wiesental valley)». Oil on ... | ||||
Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
3232 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Fehrle, P.K. Black Forest painter 19th/ | starting price: 300,- EUR | |||
3244 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hasemann, Wilhelm Gustav F. 1850 Mühlberg - 1913 Gutach. «Die Mühlenbacherin». Oil on canvas. Signed upper left and inscribed «Karlsruhe». ... | ||||
3251 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Hauptmann, Karl 1880 «Bei Bernau (near Bernau)». Oil on plywood. Signed lower left and ... | ||||
3280 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Kammerer, G. Black Forest painter mid | ||||
3304 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Oswald, Albert Black Forest painter mid | ||||
3313 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Schwarzwaldmaler Black Forest painter | ||||
3314 (Autumn Auctions 23.–24.09.2016) Schwarzwaldmaler Black Forest painter | ||||
Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015 Paintings and Drawings 19th and 20th Century | ||||
4337 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Hänger, M. Black Forest painter 19th/ | ||||
4355 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Heinze, F. Black Forest painter 19th/ | starting price: 300,- EUR | |||
4374 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Keiser, J. Black Forest painter 19th/ | ||||
4388 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Liebich, Curt 1868 Wesel - 1937 Gutach. Flowering broom. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left and indistinctly dated (19)19. Verso ... | ||||
4403 (Autumn Auctions 25.–26.09.2015) Oswald, Albert Black Forest painter mid | starting price: 300,- EUR |
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