Rupprecht Geiger

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Rupprecht Geiger (born January 26, 1908 in Munich ; † December 6, 2009 there ) was a German architect , abstract painter and sculptor .

life and work

Panel mosaic at Munich Central Station (1951), dismantled in 2018
Concave rounded, aluminum (1973), Munich Re , Munich
Rounded blue (1987), Gasteig, Munich
One of 4 two-part objects (1990) in the Machtlfinger Straße subway station in Munich
Special exhibition, Rupprecht Geiger, Alf Lechner, ROT X STAHL in the Alf Lechner Museum, Ingolstadt, February 20 - June 14, 2020
Special exhibition, ROT X STAHL, see above

Rupprecht Geiger, son of the painter Willi Geiger , studied architecture at the Munich School of Applied Arts from 1926 to 1929 , then from 1930 to 1932 an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and from 1933 to 1935 at the State Building School Munich . From 1936 to 1940 Geiger worked in various Munich architectural offices, a. a. at Bieber and Borst, who built the Borstei. Geiger worked as an architect from 1949 to 1962.

Geiger was a self-taught painter. From 1940 he was on the Eastern Front in Poland and Russia, where he began his self-taught study of painting. In 1943 and 1944 he was employed as a war painter in Ukraine and Greece.

Rupprecht Geiger was a member of the German Association of Artists and in 1949 co-founder of the artist group ZEN 49 in Munich. Geiger is an outstanding representative of non-representational painting in Germany. His art was sponsored by Hilla von Rebay , German painter and founding director of the Museum for Non-Objective Painting (later Guggenheim Foundation, New York) . Geiger created his life's work around the subject of 'color', which consistently focused on reduction and clarity. He regarded color as an autonomous value; its spiritual power was released from the form and brought to bear. To do this, he created irregular canvases ( shaped canvas ) long before Frank Stella , for example , before he later limited himself almost entirely to the archetypal forms of circles and rectangles.

In the 1950s Geiger became known for his preoccupation with the color red. Geiger: “Red is life, energy, potency, power, love, warmth, strength. With her ability to stimulate she is in a powerful function ”. An example from this period is his 103 cm × 98 cm oil painting on canvas 470/57 .

From 1965 to 1976 Rupprecht Geiger was professor of painting at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf .

Characteristic for his oil paintings, screen prints and watercolors were simple geometric shapes (rectangle, square, circle and oval), bright colors (sometimes also luminous pigment ) and intense contrasts.

Rupprecht Geiger lived and worked in Munich. In his former studio in the Solln district of Munich is now the Geiger Archive, which manages his artistic estate and offers public tours of the archive rooms several times a year.

Exhibitions (selection)

Awards

Rupprecht Geiger is one of the three honorary members of the German Association of Artists.

Working in public space

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  • Panel mosaic , anodized aluminum panels and fluorescent tubes, 650 cm × 3000 cm, Munich Central Station , facade above the main entrance on Bahnhofsplatz (1951) ⊙
  • Adhesive glass picture , baptismal window, 144 cm × 144 cm, Protestant parish Stockdorf , Peter-Dörfler-Straße 14 ⊙
  • Glass sticker , 250 cm × 420 cm, Technical University of Munich , Entrance Luisenstrasse / Theresienstraße, stairwell, 3rd floor, Munich (1964) ⊙
  • Concave rounded , aluminum, 400 cm × 480 cm × 70 cm, Munich Re , Munich, Koeniginstrasse 38 (1973) ⊙
  • Color design , acrylic / Eternit plates, Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Schule, Munich (1973)
  • Acrylic on wood , 220 cm × 670 cm, in the cafeteria of the Technical University of Munich , 1st floor, entrance Gabelsbergerstraße , Munich (1975) ⊙
  • oT , four wall objects, aluminum, spray-painted, each 300 cm × 400 cm, in the entrance hall of the Technical University of Munich, Theresienstraße ⊙
  • Rounded blue , spray-coated aluminum, 600 cm × 700 cm × 200 cm, Gasteig , Munich (1987) ⊙
  • oT , four two-part objects, acrylic on aluminum, in the Machtlfinger Straße subway station , Munich (1990) ⊙
  • Meditation room , acrylic / concrete, approx. 215 × 805 × 550 cm, in the park of the kbo- Isar-Amper Clinic, Taufkirchen / Vils (1991) ⊙
  • Modulated pink , acrylic on canvas, 120 cm × 750 cm, in the Siemens AG company restaurant , Wittelsbacherplatz, Munich ⊙
  • Big red with counterpoint , acrylic paint on plaster base, Munich University of Applied Sciences , Lothstraße, Munich (1995) ⊙
  • 2000 red (pictures A – E) , acrylic on canvas, 500 cm × 150 cm, 150 cm × 160 cm and 80 cm × 600 cm, WWK Insurance Group , Marsstrasse 37, Munich ⊙
  • Lichtbogen (Pinc) , oil on canvas, 1350 cm × 450 cm, E.ON , Richard-Wagner-Straße, Munich ⊙
  • Rot 2000, 875/99 , acrylic on canvas. In the Reichstag , Platz der Republik 1, Berlin (1999) ⊙

Collection (selection)

Literature (selection)

  • Jürgen Claus : The dynamic color space. Rupprecht Geiger. In: Jürgen Claus: Art today. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1965.
  • Joachim Heusinger von Waldegg : Rupprecht Geiger. (Exhibition catalog, Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, April 18 to May 16, 1982) Mannheim 1982.
  • Stefanie Bielmeier : Rupprecht Geiger - image and shape. In: Pantheon. Internationale Jahresschrift für Kunst , Volume 48, 1990, pp. 181–187.
  • Julia Geiger and Pia Dornacher: Catalog raisonné, 1949–2002, ed. from the Rupprecht-Geiger-Gesellschaft / Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Prestel, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7913-2864-6 .
  • Julia Geiger: Rupprecht Geiger. Catalog raisonné of prints 1948–2007. Prestel, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-7913-3891-9 .
  • Rupprecht Geiger, Margaretha Benz-Zauner: Rupprecht Geiger. Prestel, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7913-0872-6 .

Documentaries on Rupprecht Geiger

Web links

Commons : Rupprecht Geiger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The painter of the red point. In: Westfälische Nachrichten of December 10, 2009
  2. ↑ muenchen.de: Clock and alpine mosaic at the main train station will be dismantled. Retrieved February 24, 2020 .
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Geiger, Rupprecht ( Memento from November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 3, 2015)
  4. ↑ Hour 0 Hilla von Rebay and Rupprecht Geiger / ZEN 49
  5. ^ Geiger archive
  6. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Honorary members : Rune Mields , Rupprecht Geiger and Thomas Grochowiak (accessed on June 9, 2015)
  7. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Rare opportunity. Retrieved June 11, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Geiger, Rupprecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 2009
Place of death Munich