Gnom, Eisenbahn betrachtend (Gnomen). Um 1848.
Oil on panel (lid of a cigar boxl).
Wichmann 485. Roennefahrt 1406. With initials in lower right. 24 : 14,7 cm (9,4 : 5,7 in). Our painting is a great example of Spitzweg's compository mastery. A dwarf observes a train, passing a valley's bottom below him, from a remote cave on an elevated position. The old and the new time are contrasted and seen with a critical view by Spitzweg. The world is going to lose its myths, as technology is taking the world over step by step. Ghosts, fairies and trolls, incarnations of an untouched ... more

Lagernde Karrner (Rast der Streuner). Um 1870-75.
Oil on panel.
Wichmann 1460. Roennefahrt 685. With paraph lower right. 15,5 : 31,5 cm (6,1 : 12,4 in).

PROVENIENZ: Sales register no. 443 (sold to E. Pütterich, Munich, under the title "Streuner" for 150 Mark in 1882).
Galerie Wimmer Co., München, Briennerstraße, 1908, cat. no. 267.
Carl Schmid, Dresden.
Cassirer/Helbing, Berlin, 17 October 1916, no. 112 from the collection Schmeil, Dresden (with label on verso).
Sotheby's London, "Europäische Gemälde, Zeichnungen ... more

Fränkische Sommerlandschaft. Um 1870/75.
Oil on panel (wood of a cigar box).
Wichmann 1421. Roennefahrt 272. With initials (just barely visible) in lower right. With old number "16" on verso. 13,1 : 18,7 cm (5,1 : 7,3 in). During a period of maturing, Spitzweg dedicates himself to the vastness of landscapes in small formats. The increasing importance of the sky with its colour changes of light and shade is in the centre of his attention. Spitzweg takes his preferred format, in form of small wooden panels or cardboards, along in his paint-box, so that he can create ... more

Zwei Fischerhütten am Waldrand. Um 1840.
Öl auf Papier.
Rechts unten mit dem Nachlassstempel. 19,3 : 27,5 cm (7,5 : 10,8 in). Carl Spitzweg benutzte für seine Studien in der Natur besonders starkes widerstandsfähiges englisches Papier, das er in seinen Malkasten einspannte. Für ihn war die so entstandene Zeichnung, ebenso wie die Ölstudie, "nicht ein Abfallprodukt seiner Produktion [...], sondern sie war ein fertiges Kunstwerk. (Siegfried Wichmann, Spitzweg. Zeichnungen und Skizzen, München 1985, S. 22). [MD]

Verso auf einem ... more

Der Wald von Barbizon. 1851.
Oil on panel.
Wichmann 552. Roennefahrt 631. With estate stamp on verso (Lugt 2307). 12 : 24 cm (4,7 : 9,4 in). Spitzweg goes on an important journey along with his brother Eduard and the painter's colleague Eduard Schleich the Elder in 1851. They stay in Paris from the 4th till the 25th of August, on occasion of the industrial exhibition, next they travel to the world exhibition in London. This work presumably originates from a trip to Fontainebleau, as can be inferred from Spitzweg's notes. He presumably encounters the style of the "School of ... more

Felspartie
Oil on cardboard
Roennefahrt 114. With the estate stamp (Lugt 2307) in the lower centre. 29,2 x 25,2 cm ( 11,4 x 9,9 in).

Roennefahrt mentions a confirmation by Otto Spitzweg

PROVENIENZ: Auktion Perl, Berlin 1913, no. 207 (illustrated).
Auktion Lempertz, Köln 1928, no. 68 (from the collection Kommerzienrat Korff).
Auktion Helbing, München 1929, no. 196.
Private collection South Germany.

A deft landscape study which reveals the Master of the Biedermeier Idyll as a true landscape painter. His handling of ... more

Der Bücherwurm. Around 1850.
Pencil drawing.
Stamped with the blue Nachlass mark lower right (Lugt 2307). With very faint inscription upper right. On paper. 33,5 : 21 cm (13,1 : 8,2 in), size of sheet. Very beautiful preliminary study of the 'Bücherwurm' (Wichmann 534-541). The motif of the disconnected outsider who lives in his own world and complety devotes himself to the acquisition of knowledge is taken up by Spitzweg and characterised in a tenderly-ironic fashion in several paintings. [KR]
EXPERTISE: The authenticity of this work has kindly been ... more

Waldkapelle. 2. Hälfte 19. Jh.
Oil on panel.
With the estate stamp lower right (Lugt 2307). 13,5 : 10,3 cm (5,3 : 4 in).

With a number label on the reverse. [MD]
In good condition. With retouching on the upper right corner and the centre left margin. margins with isolated negligibly tiny traces of ... more

Militärfrei!. 1884.
Pencil drawing.
With monogram in lower left. Inscribed lower centre. On firm wove paper. 13,6 : 9,6 cm (5,3 : 3,7 in), size of sheet. [AS]

PROVENIENZ: Christie's New York, 25 May 1984, lot 320.

Good overall ... more

Figurenstudie. Wohl 1840s.
Pencil drawing.
With estate stamp (Lugt 2307). On paper. 26 : 17,7 cm (10,2 : 6,9 in), size of sheet. [AS]

Condition ... more