Johann Georg Geyger

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Johann Georg Geyger (2001)

Johann Georg Geyger (born August 21, 1921 in Hanover ; † August 9, 2004 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German painter , drawing teacher and graphic artist .

Life

Johann Georg Geyger was born shortly before the peak of German hyperinflation as the son of Paul Geyger and Justine, née Vandenharz, in Hanover. According to the address books, city and business handbooks of Hanover for 1920 and 1921, only the accountant Konstantin Geyger, resident at Rautenstrasse 13, was the only head of household with this name in Hanover.

Johann Georg Geyger had to stop studying at the Werkkunstschule Hannover in 1940 because of the Second World War. From 1941 to 1945 he was a soldier in Russia, Belgium and Italy. Johann Georg Geyger was an autodidact as a painter, and he had his first exhibition in 1946 in the orangery in the Great Garden in Hanover-Herrenhausen . In 1953 he received a scholarship from the Kulturkreis des Bundesverband der deutschen Industrie, and since 1955 he has been a member of the German Association of Artists . In 1958 he received the Villa Massimo Rome scholarship .

In 1961 he worked as a teacher at the Werkkunstschule in Hanover. In 1962 he was awarded the Lower Saxony Art Prize.

In 1963 he became professor of painting at the State University of Fine Arts , Braunschweig, in 1965 he was offered a professorship at the State University of Fine Arts - Städelschule , where he headed a class for free painting until his retirement in 1986.

At the end of the 20th century, Geyger's residence in Frankfurt am Main was registered at Gartenstrasse 86.

Geyger was an important collector of Japanese woodblock prints of the 16th century and a recognized expert of international standing. His collection can be seen today in the Museum Angewandte Kunst (Frankfurt am Main).

Works by Johann Georg Geyger are in many important collections, e.g. B. in the Städel Museum , Frankfurt / Main, Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover , Kunsthalle Hamburg ; Pelikan Art Collection, Hanover; Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany , Bonn; State painting collection Munich .

Quote

“The works of the 1960s are devoted to the themes of the battlefield and human martyrdom. In a strong abstraction, the destructive and destroyed in the picture come to rest. In the 1970s he created pictures of resting animals, whose glazed skin reveals their vulnerability and whose fragile limbs contrast with their flat bodies. Horse and equestrian pictures followed in the next phase. The animal dominates, e.g. B. it throws the tab out of the picture. The warlike and violent is clearly rejected in Geyger's pictures. Later pictures of the incredibly intense creative period after the end of teaching also condense images of horror and danger into still life-like calm, which at times seems puzzling and mythical. "

- Angelica Horn, 2001

Publications

  • Cimiotti, Geyger, v. Pilgrim, Sartorius (text by Wieland Schmied), Kunstverein Braunschweig , Braunschweig 1964
  • Winner of Lower Saxony Art Prize, Kunstverein Hannover eV, Hannover 1965
  • Johann Georg Geyger (text by Christa Reinig), Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt (Main) 1974
  • Johann Georg Geyger (text by Klaus Heinrich Kohrs), Appel and Fertsch Gallery, Frankfurt am Main 1980
  • Johann Georg Geyger (text by Klaus Heinrich Kohrs), Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin 1981
  • Johann Georg Geyger (text by Angelica Horn), Galerie Sander, Darmstadt 1986
  • Johann Georg Geyger (Johannes Langner), Kunstverein, Freiburg im Breisgau 1989
  • Johann Georg Geyger, pictures 1990 to 1999 (text by Angelica Horn), Galerie ARTE GIANI, Frankfurt (Main) 1999

literature

  • Johann Georg Geyger. Galerie Appel und Fertsch, Frankfurt am Main , 20-page, mostly illustrated brochure for the exhibition from October 17 to November 28, 1980, Frankfurt am Main: Galerie Appel und Fertsch, [circa 1980]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ n.v . : Geyger, Johann Georg in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of November 24, 2010, last accessed on May 22, 2020
  2. ↑ a b Geyger, Johann Georg , in: Who is who? Das Deutsche who's who , 1998, p. 430; Preview over google books
  3. ^ Address book, City and Business Manual of Hanover 1921 , Section III: Alphabetical directory of residents and trading companies ; for 1920, p. 172; Digitized , and for 1921: p. 171; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library via the German Research Foundation
  4. ↑ Johann Georg Geyger: Vita ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.johann-georg-geyger.de
personal data
SURNAME Geyger, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, drawing teacher and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 2004
Place of death Frankfurt am Main