Emanuel Spitzer

1844 Pápa/Hungary – Waging am See near Traunstein 1919

Emanuel Spitzer depicted the life of the Munich bourgeoisie in unusually colored paintings that remind in many ways of the social topics the French impressionists dealt with. In 1867, Spitzer began with first painting studies in Paris. His patrons were Honoré Daumier and Paul Gavarni. In 1861, he enlisted in the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and from 1871 on studied under Wilhelm von Diez. Afterwards, he worked as a painter, graphic artist and drawer, and from 1875 until 1880 for the journal “Fliegende Blätter” in Munich. In 1890, Emanuel Spitzer moved to Waging am See where he made some landscape paintings before he experimented with reproduction techniques. He invented the “Spitzer-typy” which did not prevail.