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Geiger, Prof. Carl Josef (14.12.1822 - 19.10.1905) |
Austrian painter, illustrator and etcher. Geiger was the nephew of the engravers Andreas Geiger the Younger and Johann Geiger. He studied history painting and drawing at the Vienna Academy from 1835 to 1840 with Johann Nepomuk Ender and Leopold Kupelwieser, and landscape painting with Josef Mössmer. He was trained as an engraver by Josef Klieber. Geiger knew Josef Führich and collaborated with him from 1844 to 1846 on the execution of the frescoes of the Johann Nepomuk Church in Vienna. Geiger received numerous commissions from the imperial house and the Viennese high aristocracy as well as from the Viennese magistrate, for whom he designed honorary citizenship diplomas. As an illustrator he worked on watercolour depictions of Schubert, Mozart and Haydn. For the World's Fair in London in 1862, he created allegorical paintings for the Austria Pavilion. Geiger also worked on several altarpieces for Johann II. Prince Liechtenstein. In the course of the Ringstrasse extension, he not only worked on the interior decoration of the Burgtheater and the Court Museums, but also on several palaces, including Kinsky, Coburg and Württemberg. In 1867 Geiger was commissioned to paint the interior of the vestibule of the Vienna Opera. Geiger taught in the elementary drawing and modelling school at the Vienna Academy and was professor of painting at the preparatory school from 1853 to 1865. In addition, Geiger was a founding member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus in 1865, from which, however, he resigned in 1872. Among other things, Geiger designed the ten-gulden note of 1858. Lit.: C. Reiter, Wie im wachen Traume. Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Ölskizzen der deutschen und österreichischen Romantik. Bestandskatalog der Sammlung des Kupferstichkabinetts der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien (2006) pp. 90-96; W. Buchowiecki - M. Poch Kalous: Geschichte der bildenden Kunst in Wien: Geschichte der Malerei in Wien. Das Wiener Kunsthandwerk seit der Renaissance. Geschichte der Stadt Wien, Neue Reihe 7,2 (1955) p. 149; R. Wagner-Rieger (Hrsg.), Die Ringstraße. Bild einer Epoche. Die Erweiterung der Inneren Stadt Wien unter Kaiser Franz Joseph 10 (1981) pp. 24-26. |
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Engraver (paper money)  |
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https://d-nb.info/gnd/116495480 |
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http://viaf.org/viaf/77068865 |
Wikipedia [de] |
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Joseph_Geiger |
Wikidata |
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1039075 |
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