Rupprecht Geiger
Original Signed Artworks & Limited Edition Prints For Sale
Rupprecht Geiger is an abstract painter and sculptor born in Munich, Germany in 1908. His paintings are of a high modernist style—mostly color fields of different geometric shapes using the variations of the color red. His father was a painter, so Geiger began painting at a very young age, accompanying his father on trips to Morocco and the Canary Islands.
« Red is life, energy, potency, authority, love, warmth, power.
Red gets you high. »
Rupprecht Geiger
Red gets you high. »
Rupprecht Geiger
In the late-20s to mid-30s he studied and taught architecture at schools in Munich. Then, Geiger moved on to working at several architectural firms. Soon, he was drafted to fight on the Eastern Front of World War II in Poland in Russia. Geiger spent the later years of the war as an illustrator of the conflict in the Ukraine and in Greece. He started painting with an abstract style in 1948. In the years after World War II, Rupprecht Geiger went back to architecture. In the 1960s, however, he began as a professor of painting at the Staatlichen Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Rupprecht Geiger’s style features simple shapes like circles, ovals, and squares; and he often uses intense shades of sharply contrasting colors—most notably the color red. His work is displayed in many German Read More
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Rupprecht Geiger
Gegen Die Folter
Limited Edition Print
Lithograph
EUR 1,790
Rupprecht Geiger
Zwei Verschiedene Rot, 1967
Limited Edition Print
Silkscreen
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What is Hard Edge Art?
Hard Edge art is a style of abstract painting which became popular in the 1960s. It included areas of color differentiated by the use of crisp, sharp edges which are precisely painted with geometric precision. Jules Langster described the art as hard-edge painting.
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Limited Edition Print
Screen-print
USD 56,900
Josef Albers
I-S LXXiiib,1973
Limited Edition Print
Screen-print
USD 12,000
Josef Albers
Homage to the Square,1970
Limited Edition Print
Screen-print
USD 12,000
Dieter Roth
Untitled,1975
Limited Edition Print
Drypoint
USD 2,200
Dieter Roth
Lauf der Welt,1970
Limited Edition Print
Mixed Media
EUR 4,900
Dieter Roth
Stamp images,1968
Limited Edition Print
Mixed Media
EUR 1,350
Jenny Holzer
War, 1992
Sculpture / Object
Mixed Media
USD 5,000 - 7,000
