Carl Spitzweg:
Sculpture "The Bookworm", cast metal version
Carl Spitzweg:
Sculpture "The Bookworm", cast metal version

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ars mundi Exclusive Edition | cast metal | handmade | patinated | polished | size 7.5 x 27.5 x 10 cm (w/h/d)

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Sculpture "The Bookworm", cast metal version
Carl Spitzweg: Sculpture "The Bookworm", cast metal version

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Sculpture "The Bookworm", cast metal version

Spitzweg's librarian stands on a wobbly chair at a dizzy height, deeply absorbed in his reading. He has forgotten the rest of the world and the other books he is carrying - and he has completely ignored his precarious situation... Our sculpture reproduces Spitzweg's original in every detail, right down to the folds, buttons and trouser bows. An ideal object for all bookworms and literature lovers!

Sculpture model after the oil painting from the Museum Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt, painted in 1852. Size 7,5 x 27,5 x 10 cm (w/h/d). Edition in cast metal with bronze patina. Cast by hand, patinated and polished. ars mundi Exclusive Edition.

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Portrait of the artist Carl Spitzweg

About Carl Spitzweg

1808-1885 - German painter and draughtsman

Carl Spitzweg was one of the most important artists of the Biedermeier period. He created numerous paintings, oil studies, drawings and watercolours whose peculiar, a whimsical charm made him the most popular representative of the bourgeois genre and landscape painting in southern Germany.

Spitzweg came from a wealthy Munich merchant family and initially completed a degree in natural sciences. An illness led him to the decision to become a painter. He continued to train himself and soon found connections with other colleagues of the Munich school of painting, such as Moritz von Schwind.

Spitzweg is one of the great German painters and draughtsmen of the 19th century. His best-known pictures, such as "The Poor Poet", the "Bookworm" or the "Eternal Wedding Man", show eccentrics of bourgeois society indulging in their respective hobbies.

Carl Spitzweg's imagination and outstanding painting technique were combined with perhaps the most important ingredient: his sense of humour. With wit and affectionate exaggeration, the inveterate bachelor created character studies of quirky eccentrics and romantic encounters - always told lovingly and with a twinkle in his eye. This is how he became one of the most popular German artists. He chose very small formats and portrayed the figures precisely and in detail in their respective milieu. In this way, he achieved a satirical overdrawing of the types that reached into the grotesque. In his later works, he placed more emphasis on the spontaneous, sketchy and moving, which is particularly evident in his landscape depictions.

He was not discovered by art history until around 1900, and throughout his life, he was never as famous as other contemporary painters.

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