A Life Interrupted in Bavaria The workshop of Conrad Geiger in Schweinfurt holds the early traces of a talent forming under a father's watchful eye. Born on May 24, 1783, Anna Margarethe Geiger begins her training not in an academy, but amidst the brushes and pigments of her father’s studio. She assists him, absorbing the mechanics of portraiture through daily labor. The path moves from the family workshop to Würzburg, where she seeks the guidance of Johann Christoph Fesel. Her development follows a trajectory of movement: Schweinfurt, Würzburg, Bamberg, and Munich. By 1806, the focus shift…
A chart of Margarethe Geiger's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.