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Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Geist (9 December 1870, Reichelsheim - 29 November 1931,
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Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Geist (9 December 1870, Reichelsheim - 29 November 1931, Bad Wimpfen
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) was a German Impressionist painter.
Life
His father was the district veterinarian. In 1871, his family moved to Grünberg and he attended the Gymnasium inLaubach
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. In 1888, he entered the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe
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History
The Academy was founded in 1854 by Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, with the landscape painter Johann Wilhelm Schirmer as ...
, where he studied under Ferdinand Keller. With a scholarship from the Grand Ducal Ministry of the Interior, he undertook further studies in Munich, Vienna and Italy.
In 1900, he exhibited at the Glaspalast. Although he was officially enrolled at Karlsruhe until 1905, he actually pursued his studies with Robert von Haug in Stuttgart. He briefly lived in Darmstadt, then returned to Grünberg in 1905 although, as a free-lance painter, he travelled frequently to visit his clients. After 1915 he lived in Wimpfen.
World War I hit him very hard; especially the loss of friends such as August Macke and Franz Marc. In response, he abandoned impressionism for a gloomier Academic
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style and his output decreased dramatically.
The ''Carl-Geist-Straße'' in Grünberg is named after him.
Further reading
* Renate Mahnke: ''Carl Geist: Leben und Werk ; Galerie der Stadt Wimpfen, 28. März bis 31. Mai 1993'' (Exhibition catalog) * ''Gießener Anzeiger'': "Grünberger Details", 8 June 2013 * Geist, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm. In:Thieme-Becker
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Thieme-Becker
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, ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart''. Vol.13, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1920, pg.356.
* Dankmar Trier: Geist, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm. In: ''Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker'', Vol.51, Saur, Munich 2006, , pg.143
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