The twins Anneliese and Hanns-Otto (children of Otto Geigenberger) were born in 1914 and later studied painting and graphic art at the Munich Academy. Otto Geigenberger studied in Munich with Professor Maximilian Dasio and at the Polytechnic (drawing teacher"s diploma).
He was one of the six children of the sculptor Heinrich Geigenberger. Of the family, Paul became a sculptor, and August a well-known caricaturist and illustrator. He travelled quite a lot for study purposes: six months in Paris, a year in Rome, also visits to the south of France, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria and above all Italy, where every year he painted watercolours in the most varied places.
He worked these up in his studio into oil paintings, through which he became known not only in Munich and Germany but also internationally.
His work has been extensively exhibited in both one-man and group exhibitions. He belonged to the Munich Secession, the Berlin Secession, the Prussian Academy of the Arts, the Association of Berlin Artists and from 1945 the Neue Gruppe München and the Ulm Artists" Guild.
His style was an example for many German painters. He died unexpectedly after an operation in Ulm on 6 July 1946.
There are streets named after Otto Geigenberger in Munich and Wasserburg am Inn.
