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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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Quinte, Lothar
1923 Neisse - 2000 Wintzenbach.
«Pulsar Orange». Serigraph in colours on canvas. Verso signed, dated (19)70 as well as numbered «5/VI». Minor stains.
H 70, W 70 cm.
Serigraph from the series «Pulsar», which was produced in eight colour variations, each in an edition of maximum ten pieces. Printed and published by Edition Rottloff, Karlsruhe.
In the 1960s, Lothar Quinte's work underwent a radical change towards strict geometry and chromatic gradation. In this process, the so-called «colour slits» were created, which energetically break up his otherwise monochrome colour surfaces and refer to the straight edges and angular breaks of American hard-edge painting.
Authentication: We would like to thank Mrs Sibylle Wagner-Quinte, Archive Quinte, Berlin, for the verbal authentication, based on photos, 17.09.2018.
Likewise we would like to thank Mrs Helgard Müller-Jensen, Galerie Rottloff, Karlsruhe, for the scientific advice via
Provenance: Gallery Rottloff, Karlsruhe; purchased in the 1970s in Gallery von Witzleben, Karlsruhe; private collection Karlsruhe; private collection South Germany.
Literature: Kei Müller-Jensen, Lothar Quinte, Das Frühwerk, Karlsruhe 2013 (cf.). 
1923 Neisse - 2000 Wintzenbach.
«Pulsar Orange». Farbserigraphie auf Leinwand. Verso sign., (19)70 dat. sowie «5/VI» num. Leicht fleckig.
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Serigraphie aus der Folge «Pulsar», die in acht Farbvarianten, jeweils in einer Auflage von maximal zehn Stück entstand. Gedruckt und herausgegeben von Edition Rottloff, Karlsruhe.
Das Werk von Lothar Quinte erfuhr in den 1960er Jahren einen radikalen Wandel hin zu strenger Geometrie und chromatischer Abstufung. In diesem Zuge entstanden die sogenannten «Farbschlitze», die seine ansonsten monochromen Farbflächen energetisch aufbrechen und damit an die geraden Kanten und Winkelbrechungen der amerikanischen Hard Edge-Malerei erinnern.
Echtheitsbestätigung: Wir danken Frau Sibylle Wagner-Quinte, Archiv Quinte, Berlin, für die mündliche Bestätigung der Echtheit, anhand von Photos, 17.09.2018.
Ebenfalls danken wir Frau Helgard Müller-Jensen, Galerie Rottloff, Karlsruhe, für die wissenschaftliche Beratung via
Provenienz: Galerie Rottloff, Karlsruhe; erworben in den 1970er Jahren in der Galerie von Witzleben, Karlsruhe; Privatsammlung Karlsruhe; Privatsammlung Süddeutschland.
Literatur: Kei Müller-Jensen, Lothar Quinte, Das Frühwerk, Karlsruhe 2013 (vgl.).