Carl Spitzweg: 9 works

'Throughout his career, Carl Spitzweg transformed the streets and buildings of his native Munich into stages where histories, fantasies, and comedies could be enacted.'

'In the final painting, Spitzweg set the oven further back to make room for the manuscripts that he might burn.'

'Spitzweg places the musician is in a delicate position, as he makes a risky move, both physically and metaphysically.'

'He is alone and confined in his room; both the young man and the bird have the same posture.'

'In a beautiful uniform and with an austere look, he watches the arrival of the coach.'

'The psychological subtlety, mysteriousness and emphatically light mood of this painting is characteristic of other works by Spitzweg.'

'Spitzweg selected a dark room and sparse light to paint the image in Rembrandt's manner; he had studied his work intensively.'

'Given the sublime, and the format (unusual for Spitzweg), the painting is regarded as "one of Spitzweg's greatest".'

'By means of an unusually tall, narrow format, Spitzweg lends a sense of infinitude to the sky, awakening in the viewer an involuntary longing to share the kite's lightness.'