Null "Binoche", Gérard Geiger collection, Pre-Columbian Art, 2005

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"Binoche", Gérard Geiger collection, Pre-Columbian Art, 2005

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"Binoche", Gérard Geiger collection, Pre-Columbian Art, 2005

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Estim. 10 - 20 EUR

Catalogue de vente aux enchères, Binoche, collection Gérard Geiger.

Estim. 30 - 50 EUR

A PRE-COLUMBIAN STYLE TERRACOTTA FIGURE, 42cm x 30cm x 22cm

Estim. 20 - 30 EUR

Willi Geiger, attr, Portrait of a Romanian soldier Expressionist portrait of a Romanian soldier of the 2nd World War in uniform. In November, Romania under military dictator Ion Antonescu joined the Axis powers under the leadership of National Socialist Germany, which is why it is possible that Geiger portrayed this Romanian soldier in 1941, Geiger created an expressive testimony of the time through dynamic contouring and contrasting colours between the background and the uniform, oil on canvas, signed "Geiger" and dated [19]41", canvas mounted and stretched on a newer stretcher, restored, rubbing in the margins, unframed, folded dimensions approx. 71.5 x 56.5 cm. Artist information: dt. Graphic artist and painter (1878 Landshut-Schönbrunn - 1971 Munich), studied 1898-99 at the Munich Kunstgewerbeschule and subsequently at the Technische Hochschule München (graduated with state examination as drawing teacher), 1902-05 together with Hans Purrmann at the Munich academy under Franz von Stuck and Paul Halm, 1905 Schack Prize, which enables him to travel to Italy and Spain for the first time in 1905-08, whereby the Spanish bullfights in particular leave a lasting impression, 1908 birth of his only son Rupprecht Geiger, 1910 Villa Roma Prize, 1912 study trips to Italy, Spain and North Africa, worked in Berlin until 1914, where he collaborated with the Cassirer and Gurlitt galleries, then freelanced in Munich, 1921-23 teacher at the Munich School of Arts and Crafts, followed by a stay in Spain, professor at the Academy of Graphic Arts in Leipzig from 1928, 1933 dismissed without notice and defamed as "degenerate", retired to a farm on Lake Chiemsee, professor at the Munich Academy from 1946, member of the Munich Secession and the Deutscher Künstlerbund Weimar, active in Munich and Feldwies am Chiemsee, source: Thieme-Becker, Dressler, Vollmer and Internet.

Estim. 30 - 50 EUR

A COLLECTION PRE-COLUMBIAN STYLE CERAMICS AND FIGURES including two ancient Greek Attic style jugs, etc. (Qty) Tallest 16.5cm

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