(b Rixdorf, Berlin, 9 Nov 1861; d Marignolle, nr Florence, 1941). German sculptor, printmaker and painter. He studied painting at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin from 1877 to 1882. From 1885 onwards he concentrated on printmaking, in which he was self-taught, and by 1886, when he received a gold medal for the oil painting Bacchus (untraced, see Rapsilber, p. 22), exhibited in Munich, he had already abandoned painting. From 1888 onwards, again studying on his own, he turned to sculpture and in 1894 he also gave up printmaking. Between 1888 and 1894 Geyger stayed first in Switzerland and then in Italy, and, having declined the offer of a teaching post in Dresden, he went to Paris, from where in 1895 he moved to Florence. In 1896 he settled at the Villa Marignolle, where he established a sculpture studio, although not altogether abandoning his Berlin studio. From 1918 Geyger taught printmaking at the Charlottenburger Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin, but he continued to spend most of the year in Florence.