Geo Furst - Artist Info

About Geo Furst

  • Biography from Mehlis

    Geo Furst was born in 1888, in Nuremberg. He was a landscape and marine painter, draftsman, photographer, and author. He was active in Munich.

    Furst was very artistic, and was largely self taught. Residing in La Valletta in Malta, he also interned there during the 1st World War. He then made the acquaintance of Fritz Leopold Henning-Danzig (1895-1951), who teaches him in oil painting.

    After WW1, he began training at the School of painting by Moritz Heymann in Munich. Until 1938, the artist spent his winter's with regular stays in Malta. Additionally, Furst spent some time as a German teacher, among other things.

    He worked for Lord Louis Mountbatten, and was a permanent resident in Munich in 1938. He went on study trips to Spain, Corsica, Dalmatia, England, Italy, North America and Africa. He was a member of the field-gray Künstlerbund Munich.
  • Biography from Yves Siebers Auktionen

    Geo Furst was born in Nuremberg in 1888. He was active in Munich as a landscape and marine painter.

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