Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Geist (9 December 1870, Reichelsheim - 29 November 1931,

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) was a German

Impressionist Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passag ...

painter.

Life

His father was the district veterinarian. In 1871, his family moved to Grünberg and he attended the Gymnasium in

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. In 1888, he entered the

Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe The State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe () is an art school located in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. History The Academy was founded in 1854 by Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, with the landscape painter Johann Wilhelm Schirmer a ...

, where he studied under

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. 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

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in Stuttgart. He briefly lived in

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, 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

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and

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. In response, he abandoned impressionism for a gloomier

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style and his output decreased dramatically. The ''Carl-Geist-Straße'' in Grünberg is named after him.

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ArtNet: More works by Geist
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