Ernst Moritz Geyger

Ernst Moritz Geyger, German (1861-1941). An impressive bronze figure of ’The Archer’, the standing naked figure wearing a helmet, drawing a bow, raised on a naturalistically cast base, signed and dated: E.M. GEYGER FEC. and inscribed: "Akt. Ges. vorm. H. Gladenbeck u. Sohn".

Geyger began work on the figure of The Archer in 1895. A four metre high model was submitted to the Grosse Berliner Kunstaustellung in 1900, which was made of beaten copper. The Kaiser bought the piece and installed it in Sanssouci. The Archer was edited in three different sizes (this one beeing the largest one) and proved very popular for the Gladenbeck foundry in Berlin.