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Carl Spitzweg

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Man in dark coat and peaked cap reads a small book at sunset above a hazy landscape with shrubs and cabbages.

Reading the Breviary, The Evening

1845

Painting of a town facade with a young man at an upper window and two women at a lower window reading a letter among flowers.

The intercepted love letter

1855

Children fly kites on an open brown field beneath a pale blue sky, with a church spire and town skyline on the horizon.

Flying kites

1880

Painting of a gilded Justitia statue with scales and sword on a stone staircase, a uniformed guard in the street beyond.

Justitia

1857

Old bespectacled man in a brown robe bending over a glass globe in a dim room with a fireplace and bellows.

The alchemist

1837

Painting of a forest path with a stone cross on a rock base among tall trees, with hills and sky in the distance.

Das Kreuz im Walde

Small painting of a man in a dark coat walking with a dog along a sunlit forest path beside a wooden fence.

Samstag-Nachmittag (Dorfpfarrers Morgenspaziergang)

1865

Night street scene with armed watchmen carrying a lantern through an archway, a lone guard gesturing on stone steps.

Die Scharwache

1871

Painter with palette studies a seated sitter in a cluttered wood-panelled studio, with an assistant and easel nearby.

Der Porträtmaler

1852

Night street scene of musicians serenading a woman on a lit balcony beside a stone building and church tower.

Spanish Serenade

1856

Man in a red coat kneels in a rocky cave, examining a stone in his hand beside a walking stick and satchel.

The Geologist

1860

Painting of a lone man in a top hat on a dirt path, with strollers, a bench, hills and trees in a loose landscape.

The Old Bachelor

1846

Painting of a woman with a basket walking a path through a deep alpine valley between steep dark cliffs under a blue sky.

In the Alpine High Valley (Landscape with Mt. Wendelstein)

1871

Man in dark coat stands by a window in a sunlit room, looking up while holding a quill beside a wooden desk.

Der Schreiber

1880

Painting of a hermit reading on a bench outside a rustic hut, with two white rabbits on the path beneath foliage.

The Hermit in front of His Retreat

1844

Painting of a group of dressed figures picnicking on grass beneath large trees, with a man in a top hat gesturing.

Das Picknick

1864

Man in dark coat and hat bending toward pink roses by a fence on a dirt path at dusk.

The Rose Lover

1847

Painting of a solitary man in a top hat on a stone bench, with two women walking past classical statues in a shady garden.

The Widower

1844

Painting of two men in a sunlit garden with a small dog, agave plant, whitewashed house and a carriage on a hill.

Childhood Friends

1855

Painting of women on a beach by white bathing huts, with chalk cliffs, a boat, and cottages above the sea under clouds.

Woman bath in Dieppe I

1857

Painting of a bearded poet reading in a cluttered attic with a green stove, hanging umbrella and stacked books.

The poor poet

1837

Painting of a man with spectacles and a butterfly net in a lush tropical forest, with two large blue butterflies on a path.

Der Schmetterlingsjäger

1840

Painting of villagers in traditional dress walking a sunny hillside path toward a distant church tower under cloudy sky.

The Path to the Church

1862

Painting of a uniformed sentinel with a dog on a grassy ledge beside a ruined wall, below a steep misty mountain.

Austrian Sentinel

1859

Painting of a sunlit tavern courtyard with patrons under a vine pergola, chickens on the ground, and sailboat sails behind.

Old tavern near Starnberger See

1865

An elderly man reads a book while standing on a library ladder surrounded by tall bookshelves and an ornate ceiling.

The Bookworm

1851

Woman with a basket on her head and a pail walks a forest path beside a white goat under tall trees.

Girl with Goat

1860

Painting of a kneeling hermit in a grey robe roasting chickens on a spit before a thatched hut in the forest.

Eremit, chickens frying

1841

Pencil sketch of a barefoot man in a shirt standing in a room with a desk, chair, bed and wall clock.

Der Dichter im Hemd an seinem Schreibpult

Pencil sketch of a seated woman by a canopied bed with a plant, plus small studies of women and handwritten notes.

Mädchen am Fenster, einen Blumenstock umarmend, darüber Skizzen zweier Mädchen

Pencil drawing of tall trees by a water bank, with a church spire and village rooftops on the distant left horizon.

Landschaft mit Bäumen am Wasser, in der Ferne der Turm einer Dorfkirche

Pencil drawing of a leafless tree with a gnarled trunk and spreading branches, with a wooden fence at the lower right.

Boomstudie

1818

Pencil sketch of a boy drinking from a jug at a stone fountain while a girl kneels beside him, with mountains behind.

Mädchen und Junge am Brunnen

Pencil sketch of a landscape with a tall leaning tree and a smaller tree on rising ground above open plains.

Landscape with two trees

In die Ferne schauender Soldat

1847