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Portrait of Reinhart Geiger

  • 1930

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Portrait of Reinhart Geiger standing, facing left; dressed in cap, blue coat, and gloves; holding oil can; locomotive in background; train tracks in lower right.

Gilded frame with label: "REINHART GEIGER / LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER / EMPLOYED 1897-1940".

Artist Gerrit A. Beneker (1882-1934) was an American painter and illustrator, particularly known for his paintings of American industry in the 1920s. Otto Haas commissioned Beneker to paint a series of pictures showing Bridesburg employees.

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  • 31.5 in. H x 38.5 in. W
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  • (Lower right) "Gerrit A. Beneker Feb. 1930"
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Beneker, Gerrit A. (Gerrit Albertus). Portrait of Reinhart Geiger. Oil paint (paint), canvas (textile material), 1930. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/5712m710t.

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