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KerrisdaleGallery.com, Stock ID#SPI198bv - Spitzweg by Lisa Schirmer (text), Carl Spitzweg (illustrations) - E.A. Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1991 Hardcover book in dustjacket, Text in German ISBN 10:3363005156 - over 92 illustrations, full-page, most in full color, includes The Poor Poet (1839) , The Bookworm (1850)

KerrisdaleGallery.com, Stock ID#SPI198bv – Spitzweg by Lisa Schirmer (text), Carl Spitzweg (illustrations) – E.A. Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1991 Hardcover book in dustjacket, Text in German ISBN 10:3363005156 – over 92 illustrations, full-page, most in full color, includes The Poor Poet (1839) , The Bookworm (1850)

Spitzweg by Lisa Schirmer (text), Carl Spitzweg (illustrations) - E.A. Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1991 Hardcover book in dustjacket, in German ISBN 10:3363005156 - page view to show examples of content: Plate 28 Spanisches Staendchen, Plate 29 Strasse in Venedig (available from KerrisdaleGallery.com, Stock ID#SPI191bv)

Spitzweg by Lisa Schirmer (text), Carl Spitzweg (illustrations) – E.A. Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1991 Hardcover book in dustjacket, in German ISBN 10:3363005156 – page view to show examples of content: Plate 28 Spanisches Staendchen, Plate 29 Strasse in Venedig (available from KerrisdaleGallery.com, Stock ID#SPI191bv)

Spitzweg by Lisa Schirmer (text), Carl Spitzweg (illustrations) - E.A. Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1991 Hardcover book in dustjacket, in German ISBN 10:3363005156 - page view to show examples of content: Plate 24 Der Briefbote im Rosenthal, Plate 25 Der ewiger Hochzeiter (available from KerrisdaleGallery.com, Stock ID#SPI191bv)

Spitzweg by Lisa Schirmer (text), Carl Spitzweg (illustrations) – E.A. Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1991 Hardcover book in dustjacket, in German ISBN 10:3363005156 – page view to show examples of content: Plate 24 Der Briefbote im Rosenthal, Plate 25 Der ewiger Hochzeiter (available from KerrisdaleGallery.com, Stock ID#SPI191bv)

Spitzweg by Lisa Schirmer (text), Carl Spitzweg (illustrations) - E.A. Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1991 Hardcover book in dustjacket, in German ISBN 10:3363005156 - composite view to show examples of content: Plate 19 Die Jugendfreunde, Plate 22 Die Postkutsche, Plate 23 Der Herr Pfarrer als Kakteenliebhaber (available from KerrisdaleGallery.com, Stock ID#SPI191bv)

Spitzweg by Lisa Schirmer (text), Carl Spitzweg (illustrations) – E.A. Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1991 Hardcover book in dustjacket, in German ISBN 10:3363005156 – composite view to show examples of content: Plate 19 Die Jugendfreunde, Plate 22 Die Postkutsche, Plate 23 Der Herr Pfarrer als Kakteenliebhaber (available from KerrisdaleGallery.com, Stock ID#SPI191bv)

Carl Spitzweg by Lisa Schirmer (text), Carl Spitzweg (illustrations) - E.A. Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1991 Hardcover book in dustjacket, in German ISBN 10:3363005156 - composite view to show front and back covers and spine (available from KerrisdaleGallery.com, Stock ID#SPI191bv)

Carl Spitzweg by Lisa Schirmer (text), Carl Spitzweg (illustrations) – E.A. Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1991 Hardcover book in dustjacket, in German ISBN 10:3363005156 – composite view to show front and back covers and spine (available from KerrisdaleGallery.com, Stock ID#SPI191bv)

TITLE: Spitzweg

The life and work of Carl Spitzweg, the 19th century German artist of the Biedermeyer period, with large full-colour plates . Amongst his most famous paintings of humorous eccentric characters are The Poor Poet (1839) and The Bookworm (1850)

by Lisa Schirmer

DESCRIPTION

Presenting the life and work of the great Carl Spitzweg (1808-1885), one of the best-known, most popular artists in Germany. Text in German, followed by 92 full-page art plates, most in full-colour

E.A. Seemann Verlag, Leipzig, 1991, Hardcover in dustjacket, German Edition

  • Price: $65.00 ($CAD)
  • Stock ID: SPI191bv

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DETAILS

  • Title: Spitzweg
  • Credits:

    Carl Spitzweg (illustrations), Lisa Schirmer (text, in German)

  • Language: German
  • Publisher: E.A. Seemann Verlag, Leipzig
  • Publication Date: 1991
  • Edition: First Edition
  • ISBN: 3363005156
  • Format: Hardcover in dustjacket, Vertical, Dustjacket
  • Binding: Paper, dark green, on boards, with small Spitzberg signature in black ink, bottom right corner. Directly beneath are two indentations in the paper at bottom edge of binding visible from outside but not evident on the inside.
  • Condition:

    Fine - pages clean, fresh, no markings or bends. As new.

  • Dustjacket: Fine: colour illustration on front cover. Minor evidence of handling and shelfware.
  • Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations accompany text, followed by 92 plates, full page, full colour with some b/w
  • Pages: 48pp text followed by 91 art plates, white endpapers
  • Dimensions (HxWxD): 12 x 9.63 x .75 inches | 30.5 x 24.5 x 2 cm
  • Weight: 2 lb, 7.9 oz | 1132 grams

SYNOPSIS

Spitzweg
by Lisa Schirmer
Text in German (section includes 16 b/w illustrations) followed by Index followed by The Plates (92 Illustrations, full-page, almost all full-color)
Contents include

    p.5 Die Anfaenge des Malers
    p.12 Der arme Poet
    p.16 Die Jahre des Aufstiegs
    p.23 Reiches Schaffen
    p.31 Zeit der Reife
    p.39 Die Spaeten Bilder
    p.44 Literaturhinweise
    p.44 Fotonachweiss
    p.45-48 Abbildungsverzeichniss (Index of illustrations)
    p.49-133 92 Plates

BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

  • Carl Spitzweg (German, 1808-1885, born in Munich, self-taught Romantic artist)
  • Lisa Schirmer, German author, also credited with Porzellan des galanten Zeitalters (1991)

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