Willi Geiger (painter)

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Willi Geiger (painting by Albert Weisgerber)

Willi Geiger (born August 27, 1878 in Schönbrunn near Landshut, Lower Bavaria ; † February 11, 1971 in Munich ) was a German painter, graphic artist , ex-libris artist of Expressionism and an early member of the German Association of Artists .

Life

Willi Geiger was born in Landshut in 1878 as the son of a teacher. 1898-99 he attended the Munich School of Applied Arts , then the Technical University, where he passed his state examination as a drawing teacher. Willi Geiger studied from 1903 with Franz von Stuck and Peter Halm at the Munich Academy, a. a. together with Hans Purrmann and Albert Weisgerber .

In 1907 Willi Geiger designed a whole series of black and white art postcards with Munich sights as a motif. Willi Geiger received the Villa Romana Prize in 1910 at the suggestion of Max Klinger for his success as a graphic artist. He worked on etchings for works by Richard Dehmel , Frank Wedekind and others. Geiger lived in Berlin until 1914 and exhibited at the galleries of Cassirer and Gurlitt . Then he went back to Munich and became a professor at the arts and crafts school. He copied paintings by the great Spaniards Goya , Velasquez and El Greco and turned to portraiture; Greco's studies were most consciously reflected in the portrait of the composer Hans Pfitzner .

After the National Socialists seized power , Geiger was dismissed from civil service and his teaching post at the Leipzig State Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Industry (now the Leipzig School of Graphics and Book Art ), where he had taught since 1928. He lived withdrawn in Feldwies on the Chiemsee and struggled to perfect his painting art. In 1946 Willi Geiger resumed teaching, now at the University of Fine Arts in Munich . In 1948 he was made an honorary citizen of Landshut . In 1951 Willi Geiger received the Culture Prize of the City of Munich, in 1958 the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany, in 1963 the Schwabing Art Prize and in 1969 the Bavarian Order of Merit .

The painter and sculptor Rupprecht Geiger (1908–2009) was his only child.

Solo exhibitions

Works in museums

Fonts

  • Lecture on the situation of art students in the present. A lecture will be held on November 27, 1932 in the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig , Leipzig 1932.

literature

  • Petzet, Wolfgang: Willi Geiger. The painter and graphic artist , Munich: Bruckmann Verlag, 1960
  • Karl Heinz Schreyl: Willi Geiger, bookplate. Complete directory. Nuremberg 1979. 156 pages with 347 ex-libris. Publisher Hans Carl Nuremberg. (see page 26, note no.3: here the wrong date of birth August 17th is corrected to August 27th, see Vollmer supplementary volume from 1961)
  • Susanna Partsch : violinist, Willi . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 51, Saur, Munich a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-598-22791-4 , pp. 80-82.

Known students

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Geiger, Willi ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 3, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  2. ↑ Irene Netta, Ursula Keltz: 75 years of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich . Ed .: Helmut Friedel. Helmut Friedel. Self-published by the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-88645-157-7 , p. 200 .
  3. ↑ detail. Retrieved April 10, 2019 .
  4. ↑ detail. Retrieved April 10, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Violinist, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and bookplate artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönbrunn near Landshut, Lower Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1971
Place of death Munich