Die Klugheit Beleuchtet die Gemeinheit
Medium
etching
Dimensions
plate: 30 × 21.5 cm (11 13/16 × 8 7/16 in.) sheet: 35.4 × 27.7 cm (13 15/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection
Accession Number
2005.157.7.9
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Ernst Moritz Geyger · 1861–1941
Ernst Moritz Geyger (1861–1941) was born on November 9, 1861, in Rixdorf (now Berlin-Neukölln), into a family rooted in education; his father, Gustav Ernst Geyger, served as rector of a Berlin community school, and his mother was Albertina Lisetta Ida Brückner, with siblings including Elfriede, known as Lisa. At age sixteen, he began training in the painting class at Berlin's Art School in 1877, t...