10 Works, Today, February 5th. is artist Carl Spitzweg’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #036

Carl Spitzweg (February 5, 1808 — September 23, 1885) was a German romanticist painter, especially of genre subjects. He is considered to be one of the most important artists of the Biedermeier era.

Spitzweg was born in Unterpfaffenhofen, near Munich, Bavaria. His father, a wealthy merchant, had Carl trained as a pharmacist. He attained his qualification from the University of Munich but, while recovering from an illness, he took up painting…

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