135 - Johann Georg Geyger

Johann Georg Geyger 1921 Hanover – 2004 Frankfurt am Main – "XII 61" – (1961) Oil and collage on canvas mounted on hardboard. 120 x 160 cm. 127 x 167 cm (dimensions including frame). Signed and titled lower right: GEYGER / XII 61. Signed and titled on the reverse: GEYGER / XII 61. On the reverse, bears a label from the Deutscher Künstlerbund (12th Exhibition, Stuttgart 1963). Inscribed and titled there. Also bears an exhibition label: *Ny tysk maleri Danmark 1964*. Labeled there: 32 / JOHANN GEORG GEYGER. Title: XII 61. / 1962 / (...). Next to it are two additional labels (SOCIÉTÉ DES EXPOSITIONS DU PALAIS DES BEAUX-ARTS, Brussels, and the MARZOTTO PRIZE 1960, Exhibition of Contemporary Painting of the European Community). These have been crossed out (presumably by the artist). Framed. - Provenance: Private collection, Northern Germany. Geyger was a painter and graphic artist, and a professor of painting (until 1986) at the Academy of Fine Arts (Städelschule) in Frankfurt am Main. In 1953, he received a scholarship from the Cultural Circle of the Federation of German Industries. 1958: Villa Massimo, Rome. In 1962, he won the Lower Saxony Art Prize and became a lecturer at the Hanover University of Art in the same year. In 1963, he was appointed to the State Academy of Fine Arts in Braunschweig.