Roland Geiger

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Roland Geiger (born April 18, 1941 in Kornwestheim ) is a German screen printer , art publisher and gallery owner .

Roland Geiger 2013

Life

Geiger came into contact with the new medium of screen printing during his apprenticeship as a sign painter in 1955, as his training company was testing screen printing inks for the neighboring Marabuwerke . After completing his apprenticeship, he worked in the advertising department of the Union department store in Stuttgart. His boss there was the Hölzel student Richard Neuz , who inserted him into the Stuttgart art scene and introduced him to various artists, including Max Ackermann and Ida Kerkovius . After a short period as an apprentice in Constance in 1958/59 Geiger went to the higher technical school in Stuttgart. In 1963 he passed the master's examination to become a manufacturer of signs and illuminated signs and founded his own screen printing studio in Kornwestheim. In addition to commercial print jobs, the first serigraphs for Max Ackermann, Richard Neuz, Fritz Winter and other artists were created there from the mid-1960s . In 1971 Geiger received a second honorary master's title (for screen printing) and became a member of a commission in Bonn that created the new job description of screen printer. 1972–1993 he was a member of the master's examination committee for the screen printing trade.

Working as a gallery owner

After the first exhibitions with screen prints in the 1960s, Roland Geiger founded the Geiger Gallery in Kornwestheim in 1975, where five to six individual exhibitions were shown per year from then on. International artists and well-known opening speakers (such as Max Bense , Reinhard Döhl and Hans Heinz Holz ) made the gallery a cultural meeting point in the outskirts of Stuttgart. In 1976 the Geiger Gallery was represented at Art Basel . In the 1980s, the focus was on editions. In 1995 Geiger had to give up screen printing for health reasons and now devoted himself entirely to gallery work.

In 1999 the Geiger gallery moved to Constance , where it moved into new rooms at the fish market. At the center of the gallery, which Roland Geiger runs together with his son, the art historian Stephan Geiger , is still the art of the 1960s with artists such as Heinz Mack , Georg Karl Pfahler , Otto Piene , Mel Ramos and Daniel Spoerri .

Works as a screen printer

Between the mid-1960s and 1995, more than 500 serigraphs were created for around 100 artists from Germany and abroad, including Max Ackermann , Atila , André Ficus , Ralph Fleck , Rupprecht Geiger , Günther C. Kirchberger , Horst Kuhnert , Otto Herbert Hajek , David D. Lauer , Richard Paul Lohse , Wilhelm Loth , Philippe Morisson, Richard Neuz , Johannes Schreiter , Anton Stankowski and Fritz Winter . Serigraphs from the screen printing studio Roland Geiger can be found today in the art trade, at trade fairs and in many graphics auctions and collections.

Exhibitions of the screen printing studio Roland Geiger:

literature

  • Reinhard Döhl (Ed.): Art-handicraft-art. Kornwestheim 1986 (with a catalog raisonné of the serigraphs printed up to 1986).
  • Stephan Geiger (Ed.): Richard Neuz (1894-1976). Catalog raisonné of the screen prints and drafts from 1966 to 1974. Kornwestheim 1997.
  • 15 from the 30th anniversary exhibition 30 years of Galerie Geiger. Exhibition catalog. Constance 2005.
  • Entry Roland Geiger in WhoisWho Bodensee. Edition 2010, No. 11, p. 191.

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personal data
SURNAME Violinist, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German screen printer, art publisher and gallery owner
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Kornwestheim