카를 슈피츠베크(Carl Spitzweg)

1808년02월05일 이탈리아 로마 출생 - 1885년09월23일

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Carl Spitzweg (February 5, 1808 ?September 23, 1885) was a German romanticist painter and poet. He is considered to be one of the most important representatives of the Biedermeier era.

He was born in Unterpfaffenhofen as the second of three sons of Franziska and Simon Spitzweg. His father, a wealthy merchant, had Carl trained as a pharmacist. He attained his qualification from the University of Munich, but while recovering from an illness he also took up painting. Spitzweg was self-taught as an artist, and began by copying the works of Flemish masters. He contributed his first work to satiric magazines. Upon receiving an inheritance in 1833, he was able to dedicate himself to painting.

Later, Spitzweg visited European art centers, studying the works of various artists and refining his technique and style; he visited Prague, Venice, Paris, London, and Belgium. His later paintings and drawings are often humorous genre works. Many of his paintings depict sharply characterized eccentrics, for example The Bookworm (1850) and The Hypochondriac (c. 1865, in the Neue Pinakothek, Munich).

His paintings inspired the musical comedy Das kleine Hofkonzert by Edmund Nick. He is buried in the Alter S?friedhof in Munich.

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    1839, Neue Pinakothek

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    Dirndln auf der Alm, c. 1870s

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    In the Alpine High Valley in Mt. Wendelstein, c. 1871

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    Begegnung im Walde, A Woodland Meeting, c. 1860