Carl Spitzweg - The fishing couple at Hintersee near Berchtesgaden
Carl Spitzweg
The fishing couple at Hintersee near Berchtesgaden
Oil on canvas. 56,2 x 47,7 cm.
Signed lower left: C. Spitzweg.
It's a moment you never forget: the young couple are resting on the shore, intimately entwined, their - first? - kiss seems imminent. In one of his earliest paintings, Carl Spitzweg has chosen a moment that everyone probably associates with a personal memory. Irony is out of place here, even the subtle irony that would later become the painter's trademark.
At the beginning of his career, however, Spitzweg was a follower of the expressly serious Nazarenes. For some time now, art history has recognised the value of these early Spitzweg works. One of his earliest works is "The Fisherman and Fisherwoman at Hintersee near Berchtesgaden" from 1834, a painting that not only harbours the magic of a new love, but also of a new vocation as an artist. "Since I became a painter - I am a completely different person," he wrote to his brother in the same year, after he had turned away from studying pharmacy and towards painting.
Literature
S. Wichmann: Spitzweg. The earliest Spitzweg paintings, Starnberg (undated). Special publication of the "Reihe für vergleichende und angewandte Kunstgeschichte", pp. 6-7.
Carl Spitzweg
The fishing couple at Hintersee near Berchtesgaden
Oil on canvas. 56,2 x 47,7 cm.
Signed lower left: C. Spitzweg.
It's a moment you never forget: the young couple are resting on the shore, intimately entwined, their - first? - kiss seems imminent. In one of his earliest paintings, Carl Spitzweg has chosen a moment that everyone probably associates with a personal memory. Irony is out of place here, even the subtle irony that would later become the painter's trademark.
At the beginning of his career, however, Spitzweg was a follower of the expressly serious Nazarenes. For some time now, art history has recognised the value of these early Spitzweg works. One of his earliest works is "The Fisherman and Fisherwoman at Hintersee near Berchtesgaden" from 1834, a painting that not only harbours the magic of a new love, but also of a new vocation as an artist. "Since I became a painter - I am a completely different person," he wrote to his brother in the same year, after he had turned away from studying pharmacy and towards painting.
Literature
S. Wichmann: Spitzweg. The earliest Spitzweg paintings, Starnberg (undated). Special publication of the "Reihe für vergleichende und angewandte Kunstgeschichte", pp. 6-7.
