Timeline

1908

Born in Munich, Germany

1926 - 1929

Studies in architecture at the Munich Art College with the Neoclassicist Eduard Pfeiffer, Munich, Germany

1930 - 1932

Apprenticeship as a bricklayer, Munich, Germany

1933 - 1935

Studies in architecture at the National Building School Munich, Germany

1936 - 1940

Work in different architectural offices incl. amongst others Oswald Eduard Bieber

1941 - 1942

Military service on the eastern front in Poland and Russia

1943 - 1944

Assignment as a war artist in the Ukraine and Greece

1949 - 1962

Freelance architect together with his wife Monika Geiger

1949

Co-founder of artist group ZEN 49 (until 1957)

1951

Design of the Munich Main Central Station façade as his first public commission in the field “art in architecture”, Germany

1955

Begins working with oil paints

1965 - 1976

Professorship in painting at the State Art Academy Düsseldorf, Germany

1970

Member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin, Germany

1979

Honorary member of the State Art Academy Düsseldorf, Germany

1983

Member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany

1993

Honorary member of the Academy of Graphic Arts, Munich, Germany

1999

Honorary member of the Registered Society of Friends’ Association Lenbachhaus, Germany

Founding of the Rupprecht-Geiger-Society (registered society of friends of Rupprecht Geiger’s works), based in the State Gallery in the Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany

2009

Passes away in Munich, Germany