Otto Geigenberger
Otto Geigenberger ( born June 6, 1881 in Wasserburg am Inn, † July 6, 1946 in Ulm ) was a German painter.
He was a son of the sculptor Heinrich Geigenberger.
Under six siblings, Paul sculptor, August a well-known cartoonist and illustrator. The twins Anneliese and Hanns Otto was born in 1914 and studied painting and graphic later at the Munich Academy.
Otto Geigenberger studied in Munich with Professor Maximilian Dasio and at the Polytechnic ( drawing master 's degree ). After a brief teaching career in Oberammergau, Berchtesgaden he settled in 1905 in Munich as a freelance painter and married. Longer study trips Otto Geigenberger six months after Paris, a year after Rome, also in southern France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland, Austria and especially to Italy, where he painted watercolors each year at various locations. Later in the studio created oil paintings by Otto Geigenberger far beyond Munich and Germany, it has been internationally known.
His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions:
Every year in Munich ( Glass Palace, etc. ), Berlin ( secession, Cassirer, kidneys village, Hartberg, and others), Dresden, Leipzig, Ulm, Duisburg, Essen, Dusseldorf, Mannheim, Darmstadt, Heidelberg, Gelsenkirchen, Wasserburg am Inn. His works can be found in state and municipal museums and in the hands of various collectors at home and abroad. Otto Geigenberger received the rare Albrecht Dürer's Medal, the Rome Prize and the Prize of the German Association of Artists. He was a member of the Munich Secession in, the Berlin Secession, the Prussian Academy, the Association of Berlin Artists from 1945 and of the New Group Munich and Ulm artist guild.
Among his closer friends included painters Joseph Kutter ( Luxembourg -Munich ), Anton Kerschbaumer, Julius Sailer, Florian Bosch, Max Liebermann, B. Bleeker, Grossmann, Garneff, Prof. Stremel, Leo Putz. His style was a model for many German painters. In 1943 he was sentenced to absolute time and sales ban. At the exhibition German artists and the SS in 1944 in Breslau the image " Megalithic grave in the heather near Fallingbostel " was issued by him, on the following exhibition under the same title in Salzburg several landscapes.
On July 6, 1946, he died unexpectedly after an operation in Ulm.
The cities of Munich and Wasserburg am Inn have named streets after Otto Geigenberger.