125001550
Carl Spitzweg
Vor der Stadt, Um 1837-1840.
Oil onn paper, lamianted on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 40,000 - 60,000

 
$ 46,800 - 70,200

Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
125001550
Carl Spitzweg
Vor der Stadt, Um 1837-1840.
Oil onn paper, lamianted on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 40,000 - 60,000

 
$ 46,800 - 70,200

Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
 

Carl Spitzweg
1808 - 1885

Vor der Stadt. Um 1837-1840.
Oil onn paper, lamianted on cardboard.
With the estate stamp on the reverse. 23,9 23.9 x 29.6 cm (9.4 x 11.6 in). [KA].

• A romantic landscape composition with a striking narrative quality.
• A virtuoso depiction of sky and light that attests to Spitzweg’s status as a master colorist.
• The motif of a stroll is one of the most popular themes in Spitzweg’s oeuvre.
• Spitzweg’s paintings are part of the most important German collections of 19th-century art, including the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin, and the State Art Collections in Dresden
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PROVENANCE: F. Stein Collection, Munich.
Private collection (since 1905, Hugo Helbing, Munich).
Rudolf von Gutmann Collection, Vienna (since ca. 1908, Artaria & Compagnie, Vienna; with the label on the reverse).
In the family's possession ever since.

LITERATURE: Siegfried Wichmann, Carl Spitzweg. Verzeichnis der Werke. Gemälde und Aquarelle, Stuttgart 2002, no. 320 (illustrated in b/w on p. 204).
Günther Roennefahrt, Carl Spitzweg. Beschreibendes Verzeichnis seiner Gemälde, Ölstudien und Aquarelle, Munich 1960, CR no. 929 (illustrated in b/w).
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Hugo Helbing, München, Sammlung Bankdirektor F. Stein, München, aus dem Nachlass des Herrn K. Hofrat, K. Obermedizinalrat Professor Dr. Albert Hilger, Munich, sowie aus anderem Besitze Aquarelle, Handzeichnungen und Ölgemälde hervorragendster neuerer Meister, June 20, 1905, cat. no. 550 (illustrated in b/w on p. 132).






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