Lived with the knights of St. John at Haarlem, and hence was called Geertgen tot Sint Jans, although not of their order and probably a native of Leyden. He painted for the church of the order an altarpiece, two wings of which are preserved in the Vienna Museum, one a Pietà, the other representing the Legend of the bones of St. John the Baptist. Other works attributed to him are: Scene from the Legend of St. Lucy, in the Lippmann Collection at Vienna; View of Haarlem Cathedral, in that edifice; Crucifixion, in the Galleria Estense at Modena. Dr. Bode is inclined to assign to this master also an Adoration of the Magi in the Prague Gallery, the Expiatory Offering in the Amsterdam Museum, and Christ in the Tomb surrounded by the Instruments of the Passion in the Archiepiscopal Museum at Utrecht.—Allgem. d. Biogr., x. 261; Bode, Studien, 6; C. & C., Flemish Painters, 248; Dohme, li.; Kramm, ii. 546; Kugler (Crowe), i. 91; Riegel, Beiträge, i. 59.
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GEERTZ, JULIUS, born in Hamburg,
April 21, 1837. Genre
painter, pupil in Hamburg
of the brothers
Gensler, then in 1856-60
of the Carlsruhe Art
School under Des Coudres,
and, after a short
stay in Munich, of Rudolph
Jordan in Düsseldorf;
studied in 1864 in
Paris, visited Brittany
and Holland, and settled in Düsseldorf.
Works: Sour and Sweet, Maternal Joy, The
Student (1867); Disturbing Return Home,
Consequences of School-Arrest, Shut In,
Watch on the Rhine (1870); Prisoners of
War, At the Menagerie, Criminal after Sentence
(1873); Organ Grinder, Last Ornament
(1874); Catching Flies, Girl with
Bird's Nest, Capitulation (1876); Beggar's
Penny (1877).—Illustr. Zeitg. (1874), i. 79;
(1875), i. 187; Kunst-Chronik, ix. 342;
Zeitschr. f. b. K., vi. 149.
GEFFROY, EDMOND AIMÉ FLORENTIN,
born at Maignelay (Oise), July 29,
1804. Genre painter, pupil of Amaury-Duval.
Educated a lawyer, but married an
actress and went on the stage. Though he
had considerable success as a painter, he is
best known as an actor. Medals: 3d class,
1840; 2d class, 1841 and 1857. Works:
Virgin and Child; Pierre Corneille; The
Actor Mirécourt (1840); The Members of
the Comédie Française (1841), Comédie
Française; Ariadne and Theseus (1844);
Molière and his Characters (1857); Sganarelle
in the School for Husbands (1863);
Members of the Comédie Française (1864);
Hylas (1868).—Larousse.
GEGENBAUR, JOSEF ANTON VON,
born at Wangen, Würtemberg, March 6,
1800, died in Rome, Jan. 31, 1876. History
painter, pupil of Munich Academy under
Robert von Langer. Studied in Rome, especially
after Raphael, in 1823-26, and after his
return was appointed court-painter to the
King of Würtemberg, for whom (1836-54)
he decorated the royal palace in Stuttgart
with frescos from Würtemberg history.
Works: St. Sebastian (1820); Two Shepherds,
First Parents after Loss of Paradise,
Moses striking the Rock (1823-26), Royal
Palace, Stuttgart; Hercules and Omphale,
Stuttgart Gallery; Cupid and Psyche, Assumption,
Madonna, Aphrodite, Crucifixion
(1829-35); Sleeping Venus and two Satyrs,
Leda, several Aphrodites and Madonnas,
Portraits (1836-56); Apollo and Muses,
Bacchus and Ariadne, Venus and Cupid,
Ceres and Jason, Æolus and Æola, Pluto
and Proserpine, Neptune and Thetis, Genii
and Amorettes (all 1860), Royal Palace,
Stuttgart. Frescos: Hercules and Omphale
(1826), Thorwaldsen Museum, Copenhagen;
Jupiter giving Immortality to Psyche, Marriage
of Cupid and Psyche, Four scenes
from Life of Psyche, Four Seasons, Aurora
(all in 1826-29), Villa Rosenstein; Sixteen
scenes from History of Würtemberg (1836-54),
Royal Palace, Stuttgart.—Allgem. d.
Biogr., viii. 495; Brockhaus, vii. 652;
Kunst-Chronik, xi. 349; Reber-Pecht, ii. 229.
