Klaus Kroeger

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Klaus Kröger (born December 25, 1920 in Berlin ; † November 10, 2010 in Hamburg ) was a German painter who lived and worked in Hamburg.

life and work

Klaus Kröger spent his youth in Spain . He went on extensive study trips to South America , Scandinavia , Italy , Finland and Greece . From 1949 to 1952 Kröger studied at Der Baukreis in Hamburg.

He began his painting with abstract landscape pictures , which he designed predominantly in dark tones with a focus on gray and black. He sometimes painted on torn canvases and then sewn up again. In artistic circles he was therefore also called " Teer-Kroger ". His painting became more and more abstract. Portrait-like head outlines often appeared in his paintings. His painting was almost exclusively reduced to black, white, gray and red in the color scale used, and in some paintings he also used ocher. He often did without painterly effects in his pictures. In some pictures he used characters, which he had made almost illegible.

In 1964 Kröger was called to take part in documenta III in Kassel . In 1981 he received a work grant from the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. In 1982 he was awarded the Edwin Scharff Prize of the City of Hamburg. In 1986 Kröger was guest of honor at Villa Massimo in Rome . In 1989 he received a working grant from the Kunstfonds Foundation , Bonn . Klaus Kröger was a member of the German Association of Artists .

Important solo and group exhibitions have taken place, among others, at the Kunstverein Hannover , the Hamburger Kunsthalle , the Von-der-Heydt-Museum Wuppertal , the Galerie Hauptmann in Hamburg, the German-Latin American Culture Circle in Hamburg, the Galerie Sala Alta in Cuenca (Spain), in St. Marien in Lübeck , in the Galerie im Winter in Bremen , the Städtische Kunsthalle Recklinghausen and the Galerie Cato Jans in Hamburg .

Klaus Kröger died on November 10, 2010 in Hamburg. The forum for artists' estates took over part of his artistic estate.

Literature and Sources

  • Arnold Bode (Ed.): Documenta III. International exhibition . DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1964.
  1. Painting and sculpture .
  2. Hand drawings .
  3. Industrial design, graphics .
  • Roswitha Siewert, Cato Jans: Klaus Kröger . Galerie Cato Jans Hamburg 1993 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, June 26 to July 25, 1998).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt from November 19, 2010
  2. ^ Speech by Susann Stuckert on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition: "Klaus Kröger - smaller formats", on April 5, 2005 in the art shop 101 in Hamburg
  3. ↑ Dark Modernism. On the death of Klaus Kröger . In: FAZ of November 13, 2010, page 38
  4. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Kröger, Klaus ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 28, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
personal data
SURNAME Kroger, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 2010
Place of death Hamburg