Biography

1908

Ruprecht Geiger is born on the 26th of January in Munich

1926-1929

Architectural studies at the Munich Kunstgewerbeschule as disciple of Eduard Pfeiffer

1933-1935

Architectural studies at the Munich Staatsbauschule

1940-1944

Military service at the eastern front in Poland and Russia; from 1943 on, deployment as a war painter in Ukraine and, from 1944 onwards, in Greece; autodidactic studies in war diaries and first egg tempera-paintings

1949

Co-founder of the artist group ZEN 49

1949-1962

Work as a freelance architect

1951

Received the Domnick Award of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

1959

Salomon-Guggenheim Award, New York

1965-1976

Professorship of painting at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf

1968

Burda Award

1970

Member of the Berlin Art Academy

1979

Honorary member of the Staatliche Kunstakademie Dusseldorf

1983

Member of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste in Munich

1986

Gold Medal at the 8th Norwegian International Graphics Biennale in Fredrikstad

1988

Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

1989

Honorary Prize for Culture awarded by the city Munich

1992

Rubens Prize of the city of Siegen

1993

Honorary Member of the Munich Akademie der Bildenden Künste

Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art

1998

Golden Honor Medal of the city Munich

2009

Rupprecht Geiger dies on the 6th of in Munich

Solo Exhibitions

A selection

2024

Rupprecht Geiger, Art in Dialogue II – Ekkeland Götze and Rupprecht Geiger. Spirit and Matter, Geiger Archive, Munich

2023

Rupprecht Geiger, Art in Dialogue I – Ena Oppenheimer and Rupprecht Geiger. Metaphor Number, Geiger Archive, Munich

2021

Rupprecht Geiger – Shannon Finley, Light – Color – Space, Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren

2020

Rupprecht Geiger – Color Condensation, Kunstmuseum Bayreuth, Bayreuth Red X Steel – Rupprecht Geiger and Alf Lechner, Lechner Museum, Ingolstadt

2019

Spirit and Matter, Kirow Werke Halle 9, Leipzig (semi-institutional)

2018

Pinc is Coming!, Museum Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz

2017

Filling Up on Color, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum Pinc is coming!, Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen

2016

Metaphor Number, Kunstgalerie Fürth, Fürth Light Years, Museum Angerlehner, Thalheim near Wels

2014

Painting, Museum Rudolf Wachter, Kisslegg Castle, Kißlegg Henri Matisse – Rupprecht Geiger. Kraft der Farbe (Power of Color), Franz Marc Museum, Kochel Geist und Materie (Spirit and Matter), Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm

2013

Das absolute Bild (The Absolute Image), Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen

2008

Refueling with Color for New Energy, Haus der Kunst, Munich The Magic of Color, Museum of Concrete Art, Ingolstadt Red is Beautiful, Museum of Contemporary Art Siegen, Siegen 100 Years of Rupprecht Geiger, New National Gallery, Berlin

2007

Paintings, Serigraphs, Models, and Collages from Seven Decades, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich Seven Decades, Haus der Künste / László Vass Collection, Veszprém

2006

The Bauhaus and Its Consequences 1: Rupprecht Geiger / Norbert Kricke, Neues Museum Weimar (Klassik Stiftung Weimar)

2005

Hour 0: Rupprecht Geiger and Hilla von Rebay, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich From Red to Red, Old Town Hall Hall, Municipal Collections, Schweinfurt Spirit and Matter, Mies van der Rohe House, Berlin

1998

Red Yellow Blue, Kunstbau der Städtischen Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

1995

Color as Message, Diocesan Museum, Freising

1994

Russian Museum, St. Petersburg Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Dresden State Art Collections

1992

La couleur est élément, Hôtel des arts, Paris Red and Black, Municipal Gallery Haus Seel, Siegen

1990

Drawing as Light, Saarland Museum / Saarland Cultural Heritage Foundation, Saarbrücken

1988

State Gallery of Modern Art in the House of Art, Munich

1986

Seiji Togo Art Museum, Tokyo

1985

Retrospective, Academy of Arts, Berlin / Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein / Municipal Art Gallery Düsseldorf

1982

Prints and Drawings, Municipal Art Gallery Mannheim

1978

Paintings and Drawings, Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus, Munich

1977

Pictures and Drawings, Modern Gallery Bottrop, Bottrop

1976

Tempera · wax crayon · graphite · prints until 1976, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

1975

Element Rot, Museum Folkwang, Essen

1967

Paintings and graphite drawings, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

1966

Oil paintings · Drawings from 1963 to 1965, Municipal Gallery Haus Seel, Siegen Paintings and Drawings 1956–1966, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin

1965

Paintings, Art and Museum Association, Wuppertal

1964

The Graphic Work, Wolfsburg City Hall