22

Rupprecht Geiger German Color Field Oil on Canvas

Currency:USD Category:Antiques Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD
Rupprecht Geiger German Color Field Oil on Canvas
ABSENTEE-ONLY BIDDING AVAILABLE. HIGHEST BIDS WILL BE TAKEN TO LIVE AUCTION FLOOR.

888 Auctions endeavors to accurately describe the items being sold, but all property offered for sale is strictly as is, where is, and with all faults. All representations or statements made by 888 Auctions and its representatives, or in the catalogue or other publication or report, as to the correctness of description, genuineness, attribution, provenance, or period of the Lot, are statements of opinion only.
Oil on canvas, framed. Featuring an abstract expressionist composition. Signed Geiger on the lower right corner. Attributed to Rupprecht Geiger (1908-2009, German) on the lower right corner. 58.5 x 46 cm (23.2 x 18.1 inches). Frame size: 64 x 51.5 cm (25.2 x 20.3 inches). PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

Rupprecht Geiger was born in Munich, the only child of painter Willi Geiger. Besides Germany, the family spent time in Spain, and he also joined his father on trips to Morocco and the Canary Islands. It was on these trips that Geiger began painting. From 1926 through 1935 he studied and taught architecture and art at academic institutions in Munich. From 1936 to 1940 he worked as an architect at several firms, also in Munich. He was called up to fight in World War II and was at the Eastern Front in Poland and Russia, and then in 1943 and 1944 he was a war illustrator in the Ukraine and Greece. He exhibited his first abstract painting in 1948. After the war, from 1949 to 1962 he was again active as an architect. In 1949, Geiger co-founded the Munich artists' group ZEN 49. Hilla von Rebay chose to exhibit his artwork at the Museum for Non-Objective Painting (later the Guggenheim Foundation). From 1965 to 1976, Geiger was professor of painting at Staatlichen Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. His paintings are often concerned with the theme of color. In the 1950s, he particularly studied the color red. Geiger's paintings are characterized by simple geometric forms (rectangles, ovals, circles), bright colors, and intense contrasts. The Dombergmuseum near Munich possesses a collection of his works. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate