4078 - Fritz Geyer, View of Meissen

Fritz Geyer, View of Meissen View from the Proschwitzer Höhe of the River Elbe and the Burgberg in spring; in the foreground, a tree and shrubs; green trees below the Burgberg; a summer scene; an Impressionist depiction with impasto brushwork, oil on cardboard, signed lower left, inscribed and dated 1916 on the reverse, signs of age, black frame, slightly bumped, inner dimensions approx. 28.5 x 34 cm. Artist information: German painter, draughtsman, graphic artist and illustrator (1873 Nuremberg - 1947), pupil at the Berlin Art School and the Training Institute of the Royal Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin, where he studied etching under his father Johann Geyer; later studied at the Berlin Academy, where he was a master pupil of Eugen Bracht; exhibited at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, exhibitions in Düsseldorf, the Munich Glaspalast and the Great German Art Exhibition at the Haus der Deutschen Kunst in Munich; member of the Reich Association of Visual Artists of Germany, the Association of Berlin Artists and the General German Art Cooperative; worked in Berlin-Steglitz; source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Dressler and the internet.