johann geyer (1807 - 1875)
Johann Geyer was a German painter of the mid-nineteenth century. He is a renowned master of genre and history painting and is considered one of the foremost German genre painters of his time.
Geyer painted genre paintings, which were particularly popular in the 1830s and 1840s. Many of them became widely known through lithographs. About 180 of his paintings are now in museums in Germany, especially in Augsburg, his hometown. The master also taught at the Polytechnic School of Augsburg and won a prize at the Munich Industrial Exhibition in 1836.
Johann Geyer was a German painter of the mid-nineteenth century. He is a renowned master of genre and history painting and is considered one of the foremost German genre painters of his time.
Geyer painted genre paintings, which were particularly popular in the 1830s and 1840s. Many of them became widely known through lithographs. About 180 of his paintings are now in museums in Germany, especially in Augsburg, his hometown. The master also taught at the Polytechnic School of Augsburg and won a prize at the Munich Industrial Exhibition in 1836.
