Touching and lonely figures are keen on the favorite business of eccentrics. In the “Bookworm”, this is a ridiculous old philosopher who reads a folio with the inscription “Metaphysics” standing
Lovers of cacti by Karl Spitzweg
Like all Biedermeier masters, Spitzweg liked to portray figures in the garden or on the terrace, in a small, compressed space, transferring the plastic distribution of light and shadow.
Poor poet by Karl Spitzweg
Touching and lonely figures are keen on the favorite business of eccentrics. In the painting “The Poor Poet” it is a writer in a nightcap lying on a mattress spread