Spitzweg, serie C -5 motifs-

The portrait-painter / Guard sewing his trousers / Customs examination / The Astronomer / Serenade.
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.

Trousers mending shield guard: A shield guard must never let the weapon out of his hand, must not go further away from the post than he is expressly ordered to do, must not talk to anyone unless the duty requires it, must not sit down, must not eat, drink, accept gifts and so on.... So a rather boring thing, which Spitzweg also sees in the same way...
With needle and thread the skirt is repaired...
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Portrait painter: In the course of the increasing importance of commissioned painting, portraiture has come so much to the fore since the 17th century that no painter of importance has avoided it. For the most part, the model was positively "put in the right light"...

The Serenade: Small group of musicians playing music in the Biedermeier period.
German small towns and their (late) Biedermeier "blossoms", inhabitants acting between historically picturesque architecture, are the main actors of his pictorial fantasies.

Papal Customs Guard (Customs Inspectorate):
Apparently absent and yet present, the gentleman inspector pursues the inspection of the customs officer. The inspected person already has the necessary coin to speed up the procedure in his left hand in order to let it disappear into the hand of the customs officer lying "accidentally" on his back. A typical Spitzwegian genre scene...

The Astronomer or The Stargazer: Somewhat bored, the gentleman "scientist" lets the paying interested party look through the telescope and gives his interpretation or interpretation of it.

Spitzweg succeeded in acting as chronicler and satirist in equal measure in his drawings and paintings.

Series list for 100/78
No. 100-561 a (1x) Conductor, with sheet of music
No. 100-667 a (1x) Traveler
No. 100-562 a (1x) Musician, playing the mandolin
No. 100-668 a (1x) Customs inspector, bent over, opening suitcase
No. 100-563 a (1x) Musician, playing double bass
No. 100-669 a (1x) Traveler, pointing
No. 100-564 a (1x) Astronomer
No. 100-670 a (1x) Travel bag, parcel, suitcase
No. 100-565 a (1x) Globe and books
No. 100-675 a (1x) Table, with brushes and pictures
No. 100-566 a (1x) Gentleman, looking up, hat in hand, bent over
No. 100-671 a (1x) Painter, with brush and palette
No. 100-1189 (1x) Guard, mending trousers, with shrub
No. 100-673 a (1x) Gentleman, sitting on a pedestal as a model (# 671 a)
No. 100-559 a (1x) Musician, playing the violin
No. 100-567 a (1x) Telescope, on stand
No. 100-674 a (1x) Painter's assistant, cloth in hand
No. 100-560 a (1x) Musician, playing the clarinet
No. 100-672 a (1x) Easel
No. 100-2 d (1x) Sign house, around 1900