Picture "The Letter Carrier in Rosenthal" (1858), framed
Picture "The Letter Carrier in Rosenthal" (1858), framed
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limited, 499 copies | certificate | reproduction, Giclée print on canvas | on stretcher frame | framed | size 66 x 46 cm (h/w)
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Picture "The Letter Carrier in Rosenthal" (1858), framed
For whom is the love letter the postman is holding in his hand - and for whom the artfully wrapped presents? All the residents of the house curiously approach the doors and windows... Original: Oil on canvas, Marburg University Museum.
Fine Art Giclée on fine 100% cotton artist's canvas. This brilliantly coloured process gives a particularly authentic reproduction of the original painting. The canvas is traditionally stretched on a stretcher frame. Limited edition of 499 copies. With a certificate on the back. Framed in a handmade real wood frame, as shown. Size 66 x 46 cm (h/w).
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany Email: info@arsmundi.de
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.
Depiction of typical scenes from daily life in painting, with distinctions between rural, bourgeois, and courtly genres.
The genre reached its peak and immense popularity in Dutch paintings of the 17th century. In the 18th century, especially in France, the courtly and gallant painting became prominent, while in Germany, a more bourgeois character developed.
Giclée = derived from the French verb gicler "to squirt, to spray".
The Giclée method is a digital printing process. It is a high-resolution, large-format print produced with an inkjet printer using special different-coloured dye- or pigment-based inks (usually six to twelve). The inks are lightfast, meaning they are resistant to harmful UV light. They provide a high level of nuance, contrast, and saturation.
The Giclée process is suitable for art canvases, handmade paper and watercolour paper as well as silk.