Rupprecht Geiger was born in Munich in 1908 as the only child of the painter and graphic artist Willi Geiger. He spent his childhood and his youth in Munich and in the foot-hills of the Bavarian Alps. In 1924 his family moved to Spain for one year where Geiger attended the `Colegio aleman` in Madrid and accompanied his father on his trips to the Canary Islands and to Morocco.

Geiger made his first drawings and watercolors during this period. One year after returning from Spain, in 1926, Geiger attended Eduard Pfeiffer`s architectural class at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich. He graduated as an architect in 1935 and spent half a year in Rome together with his father. Geiger then worked in a Munich archi...