Friedrich Carl Gröger

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Portrait of Gröger, lithograph
made by H. J. Aldenrath, 1828
Portrait of Lina Gröger, the artist's foster daughter, 1815

Friedrich Carl Gröger (born October 14, 1766 in Plön ; † November 9, 1838 in Hamburg ) was a north German portrait painter and lithographer .

Life

Gröger was the son of a tailor in Plön, where he grew up in simple circumstances and, according to his parents' wishes, was initially to become a tailor or a turner .

His parents resisted early promotion of his talent. He was largely self-taught as a painter, but in Lübeck he did have contact with Tischbein . In 1785 he settled in the Hanseatic city; here he found his first and most loyal student and lifelong friend in Heinrich Jacob Aldenrath .

From 1789 both studied together at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin . They then went to Hamburg together and then, after a joint study trip to Dresden and Paris , moved back to Lübeck, where they worked until 1807. Alternating between Hamburg, Copenhagen , Kiel and Lübeck, they settled permanently in Hamburg around 1814.

Gröger developed from a miniature painter to a portrait painter who ultimately preferred life-size half-length portraits. Aldenrath rounded off the joint offer as a miniature painter. After the invention of lithography and lithographic and their becoming known in northern Germany, the two turned to even this technology and perfected together in it under the name Gröger & Aldenrath .

Gröger was one of the most respected portrait painters of his time in northern Germany. His works can be found in many museums, such as the Hamburger Kunsthalle , as well as in North German, especially Holstein and Danish private ownership. In 1792 he became an honorary member of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities in Lübeck.

The Grögersweg in Hamburg-Barmbek is named after him - and connected to the Aldenrathsweg via Tischbeinstraße .

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SURNAME Gröger, Friedrich Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION North German portrait painter and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH Plön
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1838
Place of death Hamburg