Fanny Edle from Geiger-Weishaupt

Fanny Edle von Geiger-Weishaupt: A sunny view of a village , oil on painting board

Fanny Edle von Geiger-Weishaupt (born July 10, 1862 in Edenbergen , † July 19, 1931 in Munich ) was a German landscape painter .

Life

Fanny Edle von Geiger-Weishaupt grew up in Edenbergen near Augsburg , where her father was a district forester . In 1890 she moved to Etzenhausen near Dachau , where she married the animal and landscape painter Viktor Weishaupt (1848–1905), fourteen years her senior , who was a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe . She received her artistic training at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich and from Ludwig von Herterich (1856–1932) at the women's academy of the Munich Artists' Association . In this context, she went on study trips to France , Greece , the Netherlands and Switzerland . After the death of her husband, she moved to Munich in 1905, where she died in 1931.

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Geiger-Weishaupt's pictures were shaped by her education in the spirit of the Munich School and mainly show landscapes and villages. During her lifetime, her works were shown at the Munich Secession , the International Art Exhibition in Mannheim and the Great Art Exhibition in Dresden . Most recently, two of her works were shown in the exhibition "Anna Klein and other women artists in Dachau around 1900" in the Dachau Picture Gallery .

Selection of some works:

• Allee in Nymphenburg , Munich
• Spring landscape with a water mill by the stream
• Idyllic summer day. Part of a palace park with a fountain
• Laubgang , Karlsruhe (1907)
• March in the Dachauer Hofgarten , Dachau (1894)
• Sunny view of a village
• Early spring , Karlsruhe (1900)
• Lustheim Palace

literature

• Geiger-Weishaupt, Fanny Edle von. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 528.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Der bayerische Volksfreund, number 62, Munich, edition of September 11, 1840. Google Books .
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Hermann Alexander Müller , Hans Wolfgang Singer : General Artist Lexicon. Literary Institute Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main; 1921.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Münchner Merkur: Serious animal painter and impressionist from September 10, 2008, accessed on April 16, 2017.
4. ↑ Werner Ebnet: You lived in Munich: Biographies from eight centuries. Allitera Verlag, Munich; 2016.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Antiquariat Kiefer: Geiger-Weishaupt, Fanny von , accessed on April 16, 2017.
6. ↑ Arcadja: Fanny Noble Geiger-Weishaupt , accessed on 16 April 2017th
7. ↑ Van Ham Art Auctions: Idyllic Summer Day. Part of a palace park with a fountain by Fanny von Geiger-Weishaupt , accessed on July 10, 2013.
8. ^ Art for everyone: Fanny Edle von Geiger-Weishaupt - March in the Dachauer Hofgarten , accessed on April 16, 2017.
9. ↑ Rütten auction house: Geiger-Weishaupt, Fanny Edle  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 10, 2013.  
10. ^ Benno Rüttenauer: From the big pile of the Cologne exhibition . In: Die Reinlande . tape 11 , 1906, pp. 205–219 , doi : 10.11588 / diglit.26233.56 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).