In 1910 he received his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Berlin with a thesis on the painter Maffeo Verona.
He had contacts with Rainer Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Stefan Zweig.
[5] He was expelled from the Italian Ministry of the Interior in 1931 after which he then stayed in Oppenau / Black Forest, Switzerland and France.
[8][9][10][11] In addition to essays on art history, Benno Geiger mainly wrote poems that were strongly influenced by his impressions in his adopted country of Italy and for which he often used classical forms.
"The Giorgio Cini Foundation offers one 3-month residential scholarship to enable studies focused on the Benno Geiger Archive, which is preserved and developed on the Island of San Giorgio, as well as on other literary archives held by the Foundation".