Rolf Kroeger

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Rolf Kröger (born February 9, 1944 in Bad Homburg in front of the height ) is a German painter and sculptor .

Life

Rolf Kroeger graduated from 1992 his training as a sculptor at Alex Naef at the Ticino school Scuola di Scultura in Peccia . As a painter he is self-taught . His stone sculptures, which he often combines with metal, and his pictures are shown at many exhibitions and fairs in Switzerland , Germany and the Netherlands . His most important work is the almost six-meter-tall sculpture created in 2006 for the Mémorial Concorde , which stands at Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle Airport and around 113 victims of the Concorde crashremembered in 2000. Rolf Kröger lives and works in Brissago .

plant

The stone is at the center of Rolf Kröger's work. The stone is processed by milling and grinding. Rolf Kröger mostly combines the stone with metal, mainly stainless steel , patinated brass or bronze . The pictures are created using a very special mixed technique. He brings the crusts of the stone, the weathering, to the canvas in the form of sand and pigments, thus creating new materials.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1995: Casa Serodine , Ascona (CH)
  • 1996: Galerie Moderne, Bad Zwischenahn (D)
  • 1996: Galerie Depelmann, Hannover (D)
  • 1997: Galerie Wolfhard Viertel, Frankfurt (D)
  • 1997: Dehullu Sculpture Park, Gees (NL)
  • 1997: Art in the Park, Oberursel (D)
  • 1998: Meissner Gallery, Hamburg (D)
  • 1999: Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt (D)
  • 2000: Sculpture exhibition in Steinhagen, Expo 2000, Hanover (D)
  • 2001: Galerie Leupi, Ascona (CH)
  • 2001: Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt (D)
  • 2002: Galerie Incontro, Eitorf (D)
  • 2002: Galerie Leupi, Zofingen (CH)
  • 2003: SkulpTour, Sculpture Park Sempachersee, Nottwil (CH)
  • 2003: Galerie Moderne, Bad Zwischenahn (D)
  • 2004: Sculpture 04, Roland Aphold Gallery, Allschwil (CH)
  • 2005: Galerie Moderne, Bad Zwischenahn (D)
  • 2005: Dehullu Sculpture Park, Gees (NL)
  • 2005: Galerie Eule-Art, Davos (CH)
  • 2006: Galleria Kröger, Ascona (CH)
  • 2006: Galerie Depelmann, Hannover (D)
  • 2009: Galerie Eule Art, Davos (CH)

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personal data
SURNAME Kroger, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Homburg vor der Höhe