부산대학교 도서관

(b Munich, Jan 26, 1908; d Munich, Dec 6, 2009). German architect and painter, son of Willi Geiger. He first studied architecture under the neo-classicist Eduard Pfeiffer (1889–1929) at the Kunstgewerbeschule, Munich (1926–9). He served an apprenticeship as a mason from 1930 to 1932, which was followed by a period of study at the Staatsbauschule in Munich (1933–5). In 1940 Geiger was called up for military service. Self-taught, he started to paint in the Ukraine and in Greece, where he discovered the differing qualities of light and colour that later became the sole subject-matter of his art. Although Geiger resumed work as an architect at the end of World War II, he took part in some of the first post-war exhibitions, including Extreme Kunst in the Schaezlerpalais in Augsburg, exhibiting such works as Surreal Landscape (Dream Picture with Abstract Forms) (1947; see 1985 exh. cat., p. 31). In the wake of these exhibitions and encouraged by John Anthony Thwaites, the British consul in Munich, a group of artists formed the ...