Original scientific paper
Hans Georg Geigerfeld in Croatia
Mirjana Repanić-Braun
; Arhiv za likovne umjetnosti JAZU, Zagreb
Abstract
Hans Georg Geigerfeld was one of the most prominent painters of 17th century Slovenia. The majority of his work was done between 1641 and 1681 beginning with three paintings for the city chapel in Ortnek. Very few facts are known about his long life. In 1659 he made a amtract with Ivan Fleger, the rector of the Jesuit college, for painting and gilding the great churcb stools, the pulpit and the organ in the church of Saint Catherine in Zagreb. In 1668, 1670 and 1673 he was elected city magistrate in Novo Mesto. In 1681 his name appears in a contract by which he was due to accomplish two paintings for the altar of Saint Ignatius together with his assistants in the same church. Shortly after the contract was signed Geigerfeld died. On the basis of documents which verify his sojourn and activity in Zagreb and Croatia, and on the basis of comparative analysis of his works, it is possible to attribute the following works to Geigerfeld and his workshop: Saint Dionysius and the
two martyrs, Saint Vitus, Saint Barbara and Saint Apolonia on the altars of Saint Catherine's church; the painting at the high altar of Saint Michael's churcb in Vugrovec, and two paintings in the Franciscan monastery in Klanjec. Inherent in these paintings are peculiar values of colour and form that are characteristic of Geigerfeld and show a striking similarity with his other known works. The artist broadened his essentially Mannerist approach with certain Baroque features, yet the Mannerist sensibility remained the predominant aspect of his art. In his works light and colour merge and form an interesting effect of luminosity, and regarding the space in some of his paintings there is no firm perspective basis. Geigerfeld had a strong sculptural feeling for form which he reinforced with the use of light and shadow.
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139142
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Publication date:
15.12.1990.
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