Hans Freiherr von Geyer zu Lauf (14 January 1895 – 10 August 1959) was a German painter who was born in
Freiburg and grew up in the suburb Günterstal. In 1917 he moved to
Dießen am Ammersee
Dießen am Ammersee (Southern Bavarian: ''Diaßn am Ammasä'') is a municipality in the district of Landsberg in Bavaria in Germany. It is located on the shores of the Ammersee.
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on the
Hessische Bergstraße
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. From 1940 he lived again in Freiburg, this time in a studio apartment which was destroyed during the
air raid on Freiburg in 1944 whereupon he returned to the Bergstraße. In 1945, after the end of the war, he moved to
Emmendingen and finally in 1954 back to Freiburg where lived until his death in a car accident in 1959.
The
panel painting "''A Cosmic Song''" is the main work of the painter.
Collection Geyer zu Lauf
In 1997 the Circle of Friends Geyer zu Lauf installed a permanent exhibition of paintings, drawings and graphics of all the creative phases of the artist in the former Hodel brewery in Emmendingen. His major work, the Panel Painting, which was only loan in the exhibition, was sold by the owner in 2008. However, the second wife and widow of the painter, Isolde von Geyer zu Lauf who was born on 27 February 1911 and died on 28 May 2011 appointed the Circle of Friends sole heir and thus the collection increased enormously, and it became necessary to store it away. While it is archived it is not possible to visit it.
[Circle of Friends Geyer zu Lauf]
Permanent Exhibition
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See also
* List of German painters
External links
Circle of Friends Geyer zu Lauf
References
20th-century German painters
20th-century German male artists
German male painters
Barons of Germany
1895 births
1959 deaths
Artists from Freiburg im Breisgau
Art museums and galleries in Germany
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