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Carl Spitzweg

Carl Spitzweg (1808 - 1885) was active/lived in Germany.  Carl Spitzweg is known for Figure, provincial genre, landscape painting.

German painter Carl Spitzweg is considered one of the foremost artists of the Biedermeier era, a transitional period spanning the three decades between the Congress of Vienna (1815) and the Revolution of 1848. The Biedermeier era celebrated simple, middle-class sensibilities and the importance of family and community, not the emotionally-heightened individualistic experiences preached by the Romantics.

Spitzweg, in particular, created numerous portraits of the average citizen going about his or her daily routine in a decidedly un-profound way. Like many of his contemporaries, he was greatly influenced by the Dutch seventeenth-century masters, such as Frans van Mieris, Jan Steen and Gerard Terborch. Petra ten-Doesschate Chu writes, "…the similarities between Biedermeier and seventeenth-century Dutch painting were not merely due to the ubiquity of Dutch art; they also reflected common social and political values. In Germany as well as in France, the bourgeois culture of the seven   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 10106 characters.]  Artist bio

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