Carl Spitzweg

Carl Spitzweg
Carl Spitzweg, Public domain

(1808–1885) tysk målare

Carl Spitzweg (1808–1885) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Carl Spitzweg belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.

Carl Spitzweg was born in Munich and died in Munich. Carl Spitzweg trained at LMU Munich and Wilhelmsgymnasium. Carl Spitzweg worked in Munich. Wikidata associates Carl Spitzweg with Post-romanticism.

The best-known works include ‘Magician and Dragon’, ‘Newspaper Reader in the Garden’, ‘The Bookworm’, and ‘The Geologist’. The catalogue has 122 works by Carl Spitzweg with free images. The dated works span the years 1833–1900. Works by Carl Spitzweg are held by several collections, among them Art collection of the Federal Republic of Germany, Museum Georg Schäfer, Munich Central Collecting Point, and Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen. Wikidata links 4 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Romanticism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Cosroe Dusi, Aleksey Tyranov, Petrus Johannes Schotel, Ludwig Lange, and Gustav Jäger.