Die Klugheit Beleuchtet die Gemeinheit (Wisdom illuminates meanness) 1899
Ernst Moritz Geyger
* 1861 in Rixdorf † 1941 in Marignolle, near Florence
Etching. Size of sheet: 35.2 x 27.6 cm.
Signed.
Very good impression on a full sheet.
£ 2,000. -
Geyger moved to Florence in 1895 and founded a printing workshop. After abandoning painting, he concentrated on printmaking and sculpture, in a similar way to his contemporaries Karl Stauffer-Bern and Max Klinger, who also both lived in Florence. Today Geyger is mostly known for his sculptures; indeed his best known sculpture, ‘Bogen- schütze’, has been cast in different sizes and materials, including silver. Despite having a printing workshop in Florence, Geyger’s printed works are hardly known, and because of that he has never been included in surveys of German-speaking printmakers in Florence at the turn of the century. Nonetheless, his prints are technically outstanding, and he should be regarded as a symbolist artist, situated between Max Klinger and Richard Müller (1874–1954).