Benno Geiger (writer)

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Benno Geiger ( pseudonym : Egon E. Nerbig , born February 21, 1882 in Rodaun near Vienna , † July 26, 1965 in Venice ) was an Austrian art historian , art dealer , writer and translator .

Life

Benno Geiger was the son of the painter Pauline Geiger and grandson of the doctor Georg Julius von Schultz . He spent the first years of his life with his mother and her sister Ella Adaïewsky in Venice. From 1884 to 1889 he lived with relatives in the Livonian village of Dorpat . He attended school in Venice and then a commercial college . Beginning in 1901, studied it art history , music and German literature at the University of Leipzig and the University of Berlin . In 1910 he was at the University of Berlin with a thesis on the painter Maffeo Verona for Doctor of Philosophy PhD . From 1910 to 1914 he worked as an assistant at the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin.

Geiger later stayed mainly in Venice, where he worked as a freelance writer and art dealer . Extensive travels took him to Rome , Paris and Vienna, among others . He dealt with Italian art and maintained contacts with Rainer Maria Rilke , Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Stefan Zweig , among others . Like Donald A. Prater and Oliver Matuschek, Geiger later pointed out Zweig's tendency towards exhibitionism at the time. Because of its business conduct as an art dealer Geiger had to go from Vienna to Venice, where he was for the same reasons in 1931 by the Italian Interior Ministry reported . He then stayed in Oppenau / Black Forest , Switzerland and France . In 1935 he was able to return to Venice. Geiger was a member of the NSDAP . In November 1938 he was involved in the Aryanization of three watercolors by Rudolf von Alt and four watercolors by Jakob Alt from the property of the Viennese lawyer Norbert Klinger with a 9% commission. Since father and son Alt were among Hitler's favorite artists , Geiger also forced the majority of the estate in their possession from Rudolf von Alts' daughter. In 1942 and 1943 he accompanied Franz Kieslinger and Kajetan Mühlmann on their procurement campaigns in Italy.

After the end of the Second World War , Geiger lived again in Venice.

In addition to art historical essays, Benno Geiger mainly wrote poems that were strongly influenced by his impressions in his adopted country of Italy and for which he often used classical forms. In addition, translated it Dante and Petrarch into German. In 1959 he received the Johann Heinrich Voss Prize for Translation from the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt for his translation work .

Fonts

  • A summer idyll , Berlin-Charlottenburg 1904
  • Loveless chants , Berlin 1907
  • Maffeo Verona (1574-1618) and his works for the St. Mark's Church in Venice , dissertation Berlin 1910
  • Collected poems , Leipzig 1914
  • The window at midnight , Leipzig 1919
  • Complete poems , Vienna 1925
  • The vacation trip , Florence 1929
  • Fiftieth birthday , Bern 1932
  • Works , Zurich [u. a.]
    • 1. Idyllen or The Poems in Terzinen , 1939
  • So spoke Benno Geiger , Venice 1947
  • Hand drawings by old masters , Zurich [a. a.] 1948
  • The Complete Poems , Florence
    • 1. Idylls, songs, chants , 1958
    • 2. Cantatas, Myths, Odes , 1958
    • 3. Legends, hymns, poems of time and controversy , 1958
  • Memorie di un Veneziano. Florence 1958; Treviso 2009
  • The bizarre paintings by Giuseppe Arcimboldi (1527-1593) , Wiesbaden 1960
  • Bestiarium hominis sapientis is a brief contemporary cultural and art history . Edited from the estate of the poet Benno Geiger. by Egon E. Nerbig. Peninsula Publishing House, Lugdunum 1965
Editing
Translations
  • Dante Alighieri : The Divine Comedy , Darmstadt [u. a.]
    • 1. Hell , 1960
    • 2. Purgatory , 1960
    • 3. Paradise , 1961
  • Giovanni Pascoli : The selected poems , Leipzig 1913
  • Francesco Petrarca : The Triumphs , Vienna 1935
  • Francesco Petrarca: The Canzoniere , Zurich [u. a.] 1937
  • Francesco Petrarca: Das lyrische Werk , Darmstadt [u. a.] 1958

literature

  • Leo Planiscig , Hermann Voss : Hand drawings by old masters from the Dr. Benno Geiger , with a foreword by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Amalthea, Zurich / Leipzig / Vienna 1920.
  • Gabriella Rovagnati: Between Rodaun and Venice. The double soul of Benno Geiger. In: Jeanne Benay (Ed.): Austrian Satire (1933-2000). Exile, remigration, assimilation. Lang, Bern 2003, ISBN 3-03910-090-4 , pp. 129-144.
  • Francesco Zambon, Elsa Geiger Ariè (ed.): Benno Geiger e la cultura italiana. Leo Olschki Editore, Florence 2007, ISBN 978-88-222-5586-0 .
  • Marco Meli, Elsa Geiger Arié (eds.): Benno Geiger e la cultura europea ( Collana Linea veneta. Volume 21). Leo Olschki Editore, Florence 2010, ISBN 978-88-222-6033-8 .
  • Meike Hopp: Art trade under National Socialism: Adolf Weinmüller in Munich and Vienna. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2012, ISBN 3-412-20807-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Benno Geiger: Memorie di un Veneziano. Florence 1958; Treviso 2009.
  2. ↑ Klemens Dieckhöfer: Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) and the importance of the bio-negative in his life. A contribution to the question of his exhibitionism and as a comment from a psychiatric point of view. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 34, 2015, pp. 129–135, here: p. 129.
  3. ↑ a b c Meike Hopp: Art trade under National Socialism: Adolf Weinmüller in Munich and Vienna , 2012, p. 156.
  4. ↑ Meike Hopp: Art Trade in National Socialism: Adolf Weinmüller in Munich and Vienna , 2012, p. 277.
  5. ↑ Meike Hopp: Art Trade in National Socialism: Adolf Weinmüller in Munich and Vienna , 2012, p. 279.
  6. ↑ Meike Hopp: Art Trade in National Socialism: Adolf Weinmüller in Munich and Vienna , 2012, p. 157.
personal data
SURNAME Violinist, Benno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nerbig, Egon E. (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Rodaun
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1965
Place of death Venice