Hans Freiherr von Geyer zu Lauf
Hans Freiherr von Geyer to run ( born January 1, 1895 in Freiburg im Breisgau, † August 10, 1959 ) was a German painter.
Life
Hans von Geyer to run was the eldest son of laryngologists Rudolf Geyer to run and comes from a long-established in Freiburg and the Black Forest family. He grew up in the Freiburg district Günterstal and put 1916, the Abitur. Due to an illness, he began to press artistic and discovered his vocation to the painter. He trained initially largely self- made and kept thereby often long periods of time in Munich, where he made studies in museums and gained experience. During this period also precise nature studies of landscapes and plants.
In 1918 he moved to his first marriage to Schönberg on the mountain road in a remote house. Life on the mountain road, and his impressions of the Odenwald had great influence on his artistic development and his physical recovery.
Subsequently, he worked intensively with the painting techniques of medieval masters and had a lively exchange with Max Doerner. Two studies in the Netherlands had the consequence that he addition of watercolor painting, who operated spring and silverpoint drawing especially the medieval styles of painting. His paintings from this period found paragraph, such as public services and have also been shown in exhibitions.
1941 Geyer moved back to Freiburg. The impressions he got from his hometown destroyed in the war, were reflected in the dream images that emerged during this period. In 1949 he married his second wife Isolde with whom he lived in Emmen things, where he created the long planned by "table work", a two -meter-high change shrine with three successive picture trilogies.
From 1954 he lived again in Freiburg, where he traveled to Alsace, Switzerland and Italy, which gave him plenty of inspiration for his work. He died in a car accident in a storm.
His brother Helmuth was also an artist, he has illustrated many books.
Further Reading
- A forgotten painter: from Geyer to run. In: Badische home. Issue 4/ 2009.