Erich Krüger (painter)

Erich Krüger (born March 5, 1897 in Berlin , † March 27, 1978 in Benzingerode ) was a German painter.

Life

Krüger worked as a freelance artist in Berlin. He mainly painted landscapes and animals as well as still lifes. His studies with Bruno Paul at the Art Academy in Berlin were interrupted by the First World War . Then he continued with Professor Gärtner and Paul Müller-Kaempff . In 1944 his studio with numerous works was destroyed by a bomb hit. He then moved to the northern Harz in the Brunswick village of Benzingerode near Wernigerode , where he lived until the end of his life.

The artist's pleasing, realistic style of painting was appreciated during the National Socialist era, when 36 of his motifs, including “Sunny Corridors” and “Poppy and Sunflower” were reproduced and produced and sold by the May Art Institute . In the GDR after 1948, the reproductions of Kruger’s paintings, including “Red Poppy”, were included in the Gradus-Blätter program. "... So the conventional taste of the mass of the public had initially asserted itself again ...", while socialist realism suffered a setback.

The Dresden Art Academy offered him a professorship in 1967. In Benzingerode he mainly painted resin pictures and flowers. Some of his paintings ( tulips , oil on canvas, 110.5 × 80 cm) are in the possession of the Harz Museum Wernigerode and the Museum Schloss Wernigerode .

Exhibitions

• 1984 Ambergau Museum, Bockenem

literature

• Siegfried and Ursula Gehrke: The Harz - Seen by Painters (1850-1950) , Verlag Erich Goltze, Göttingen 1990, p. 238.

Web links

• Two of his works
• Works by Erich Krüger in the Harz Museum Wernigerode

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Leipziger Jahrbuch zur Buchgeschichte , Volume 8, publications of the Leipzig Working Group on the History of the Book Industry, O. Harrassowitz, 1998, Wiesbaden, pp. 192, 246, 262.
2. ↑ http://www.eart.de/eigen/displayArtist.cfm?ArtistID=2204 .