Bernard Geiser

Bernard Geiser was an artist-priest ordained as an Episcopal minister in 1924. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the University of Oregon, the Portland Museum School of Art and with artists Andrew Vincent and William Givler. While in France in World War I, he painted murals in the base hospital in Perigueux. After the war he headed the art department at Western State College in Colorado.

Geiser settled in Portland in 1931. While assigned to St. Mark's Church, he completed a series of eleven murals and frescos in the cathedral. He was active in local art circles from his arrival in the 1930s until his death in 1965. Geiser’s work can be found in the collections of the Denver Art Museum, Portland Art Museum, and Seattle Art Museum.