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Karl Kröner

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Karl Kröner in 1955

Karl Kröner (7 April 1887 – 3 October 1972) was a German painter and writer.

Biography

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Between 1904 and 1908, Kröner studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Dresden.

He worked till 1910 as a freelancer in Chemnitz and studied again from 1910 to 1914 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Dresden[1] under Eugen Bracht and Gotthardt Kuehl.

After going on a study trip to the Baltic Sea and the Netherlands, he moved to Niederlößnitz in 1914 to live with Paul Wilhelm and Wilhelm Claus. There he worked as a freelance artist.

Between 1915 and 1918, he was a soldier in the First World War. In 1923 and 1924, he went on two trips to Italy. Between 1924 and 1933 he was a member of the Artists' Association.

Works

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  • Waldflechte (1906)[2]

References

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  1. ^ Webster, Gwendolen; Schwitters, Kurt (1997). Kurt Merz Schwitters: A Biographical Study. University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-1438-8. Karl Kroner, a painter who modelled his style on nothing more modern than Cézanne. Kröner was the same age as Schwitters and had also studied at the Dresden Academy.
  2. ^ Art, University of Kansas Museum of (1975). The Register of the Museum of Art. The University. p. 98.
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