Lot 80: Carl Joseph Geiger (Vienna 1822-1905) Full-Length

Carl Joseph Geiger (Vienna 1822-1905) Full-Length Portrait of a Poet (?), signed Karl Geiger, Oil on canvas, 189,5 x 97,5 cm, unframed, small losses to the paintwork around the left knee, (Rei) Carl Joseph Geiger: He entered the Vienna Academy at the young age of thirteen and began his studies under Josef von Führich, who had great influence over his artistic direction in the early stages of his career. His later pictures turn towards Christian allegorical subjects. As commissions for the Kaiser and members of the Viennese aristocracy, he also painted a number of watercolours on subjects such as Schubert's Lieder, Mozart's Don Juan, Weber's Freischütz and Haydn's Seasons.