German Painting by Klaus H. Carl

Author:Klaus H. Carl [Carl, Klaus H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783107933
Publisher: Parkstone International

Carl Spitzweg

Finally, an artist needs to be mentioned in whose work reality and romance merge into one another. Just an outsider at the time of his life, he deserves intensive attention: the certified pharmacist and self-taught painter Carl Spitzweg. He has added to the figures of Schwind’s romanticism fairies, knights, and forest spirits as new phenomena, the night watchman and urban soldier, the eccentric old poet and bachelor, the bookworm, and the Philistine in his Sunday coat.

With all his works Spitzweg has undergone a slight tilt of the grotesque. These amusing phenomena are even in terms of the picturesque and colouristic side enjoyable, as in The Poor Poet (1839, Neue Pinakothek, Munich). In all quietness, Spitzweg had learned from French models, and following their example, he also frequently painted outside, including some excellent landscapes, such as English Tourists in the Roman Campagna (1845, Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin). And the twisty roads in ancient towns, which often play a major role in his narrative pictures, apparently originate from reality.

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