Southern Landscape

Details

Roennefahrt 604; Wichmann 642.

Literatur:
Günther Roennefahrt, Carl Spitzweg. Beschreibendes Verzeichnis seiner Gemälde, Ölstudien und Aquarelle, München 1960, S. 196, Kat.-Nr. 604, mit Abb.;
Siegfried Wichmann, Spitzweg. Begegnungen mit Moritz von Schwind und Arnold Böcklin in die kleine Landschaft, Haus der Kunst. München 1985, S. 129, Kat.-Nr. 88, mit Abb.;
Siegfried Wichmann, Carl Spitzweg. Verzeichnis der Werke, Stuttgart 2002, S. 310, Kat.-Nr. 642, mit farb. Abb.

Ausstellung:
Wiener Biedermeier-Maler und Carl Spitzweg, Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1950, Kat.-Nr. 356;
Ausstellung Carl Spitzweg. Zur 150. Wiederkehr seines Geburtstages am 5. Febr. 1958, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München 1958, S. 35, Kat.-Nr. 54 (betitelt als “Gebirgslandschaft”).

Provenienz:
Sammlung der Fürsten zu Liechtenstein (Inv.-Nr. 2147), verso auf altem Etikett nummeriert “27” sowie mit der Adresse;
Sammlung Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt (Inv.-Nr. 2327), auf der Rahmenrückseite mit dem Etikett;
Privatsammlung, Süddeutschland.

Description

Shortly after Carl Spitzweg passed his examination as a practical pharmacist on 4 April 1832, he set off on an extended trip to Italy. On the 28th of the same month, coming from Trieste, where he had paid a visit to his brother who was ill, he stopped off in Venice. His journey then took him to Padua, Bologna and Florence. He reached Rome on 26 May, where he continued to fill his sketchbooks with meticulous studies of Castel Sant’Angelo, the Arch of Constantine and the Roman Forum, among other things, before continuing south to Naples. In retrospect, this second journey through Italy was groundbreaking in that it encouraged Spitzweg, who had grown tired of pills and ointments, to devote himself entirely to painting and the art of drawing. In his late work, Spitzweg returned to the journey he had undertaken almost 40 years earlier with a number of pictures depicting hilly landscapes dotted with pine groves. Several pencil studies from his sketchbook of 1832 can be attributed specifically to the present landscape.