Sculpture "The Eternal Bridegroom", cast metal version
Sculpture "The Eternal Bridegroom", cast metal version
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ars mundi Exclusive Edition | cast metal | handmade | hand-patinated | -polished | size 9 x 2.5 x 10 cm (w/h/d)
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Sculpture "The Eternal Bridegroom", cast metal version
Even during his lifetime, "The Eternal Bridegroom" was perhaps the painter's most popular subject: the suitor gallantly hands his beloved a bouquet. At the insistence of his collectors, Spitzweg painted the motif several times in slight variations. Now the motif is available exclusively from ars mundi as a romantic table sculpture. Our sculpture reproduces Spitzweg's original in exact detail, right down to the drapery, hairstyle and flowers. An ideal gift for a loved one, a sincere thank you and a stylish declaration of love!
Sculptor after the oil painting, from 1858-60. Cast by hand. Size 9 x 21,5 x 10 cm (w/h/d). Edition in cast metal with bronze-coloured patina. Patinated and polished by hand.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
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.
Art and culture set between Romanticism and Realism in the German-speaking world in the period from 1815 to approx. 1860. The epoch received its name through the magazine "Fliegende Blätter", where, between 1855 and 1857, the poems by Swabian schoolteacher Gottlieb Biedermaier were regularly published.
The painting of this period was dominated by intimate, comfortable motifs. Masters of the Biedermeier include Carl Spitzweg, J. P. Hasenclever, G. F. Kersting. Ludwig Richter distinguished himself as an excellent illustrator.
After the German Centennial Exhibition 1906 in Berlin, the term "Biedermeier" established to describe fashion and furniture of simple, unadorned styles, yet of high-quality craftsmanship.
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A plastic work of sculptural art made of wood, stone, ivory, bronze or other metals.
While sculptures made of wood, ivory, or stone are carved directly from the material block, in bronze casting, a working model is prepared at first. Usually, it is made of clay or other easily mouldable materials.
The prime time of sculpture after the Greek and Roman antiquity was the Renaissance. Impressionism gave a new impulse to the sculptural arts. Contemporary artists such as Jorg Immendorf, Andora, and Markus Lupertz also enriched sculptures with outstanding works.