Shop art print and framed art The poor Poet by Carl Spitzweg

The Poor Poet (in German: Der arme Poet) is a painting by Carl Spitzweg, produced in 1839 and now in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich. German Romanticism, which at the beginning of the 19th century focused on man in harmony with Nature, is shown here in the context of the Biedermeier period, which followed the introduction of repressive measures (censorship, controls) after the Karlsbad Congress of 1819. Protest had to be less frontal, and the painter used the usual means to satirise contemporary society. The poor poet, the reclusive intellectual, popular with the Romantics, was an idealised figure: - Stendhal [ref. needed] This was reflected in Honoré Daumier's caricature of Poète dans la mansarde (Poet in the garret) (1842), with a poet at the height of his powers writing a fiery pamphlet. The poor poet, caricatured here, is concerned with the minuscule, with no horizon, shut away in his garret, in contrast to Caspar David Friedrich's Traveller Contemplating a Sea of Clouds from 1818 (Hamburg Kunsthalle). Apart from a study dating from the same year (location unknown), there are three versions of the painting, all dated 1839 and almost identical: the one in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, the one in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, and another in the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Mathias Etenhueber (de) (1720-1872), a poet who lived in Munich, is thought to have been the model. The painting depicts a poet in the only room in his attic, a room lit by a window in [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the classical period. It belongs to the romanticism style.

 

« The poor Poet » is kept at Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.

 

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