CARL SPITZWEG

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah 

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Carl Spitzweg (1808-1885) was a German romanticist painter. He was educated to be a pharmacist, but while recovering from an illness, he took up painting. He started copying works of Flemish masters, and became a self taught artist.

During the visit to Prague, Venice, Paris, London, and Belgium, Spitzweg improved his technique. He was first influenced by Flemish painters. Later, Dutch Realist painters and French and German Impressionist painters affected him.

Spitzweg’s first work, was a satire, and many of his works reflect that humour and depiction of eccentricity. He painted cheerful view of everyday life middle-class life in Germany. Nearly all his works include architectural entities as background, with a sense of shadow, light, and composition.

Carl Spitzweg left behind more than 1,500 sketches, paintings, and water colours.

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