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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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Ruysch, Rachel
1664 Amsterdam - 1750 ebd.
Still life with flowers. Circa 1695. Oil on panel. Indistinctly monogrammed lower right. Retouching. Minor pigment loss. Authentication: We would like to thank Dr. Marianne Berardi, expert for Rachel Ruysch, for the authentication via
Dr. Marianne Berardi is dating the work around 1695, based on formal and stilistic aspects.
We also would like to thank Mr Fred Meijer, Conservator, Afd. Oude Nederlandse Schilderkunst/Curator, Dpt. of Old Netherlandish Painting, Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), Den Haag, for the scientific advice via 
1664 Amsterdam - 1750 ebd.
Stillleben mit Blumen. Um 1695. Öl/Holz. Blumenarrangement vor dunklem Hintergrund, mit weißen und blauen Akeleien im Zentrum, roten Ringelblumen sowie einer weißen Rose und zwei rosafarbenen Kohlrosen. Verschiedene Insekten die Blüten umgebend, darunter ein Schmetterling und mehrere Ameisen auf der weißen Rose, eine Hummel die Kohlrosenblüte bestäubend, eine Grille auf eben dieser sitzend sowie mehreren Libellen die Blüten anfliegend. U.r. schwer leserlich monogr. Retuschen. Min. Farbabsplitterung.
Es handelt sich hierbei um eines der frühen Werke der Künstlerin, das als Zeugnis höchster künstlerischer Qualität des holländischen Barockzeitalters betrachtet wird.
Echtheitsbestätigung: Wir danken Frau Dr. Marianne Berardi, Expertin für Rachel Ruysch, für die Bestätigung der Echtheit via
Frau Dr. Marianne Berardi datiert das Werk anhand formaler und stilistischer Aspekte in die Schaffensphase um 1695.
Wir danken ebenfalls Herrn Fred Meijer, Conservator, Afd. Oude Nederlandse Schilderkunst/Curator, Dpt. of Old Netherlandish Painting, Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), Den Haag, für die wissenschaftliche Beratung via
Provenienz: Sammlung Klever, Leverkusen; Lempertz, Köln, 10.12.1990, Los 106; seitdem Privatbesitz Freiburger Industriellenfamilie.
Werkverzeichnis: Das Werk wird in dem sich in Bearbeitung befindenden Werkverzeichnis von Rachel Ruysch von Frau Dr. Marianne Berardi aufgeführt.