Bookworm by Karl Spitzweg

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