Who is Eriksdun? 1904 - 1982


 

1904 Heinrich Friedrich Kröger was born

Heinrich Kröger was born on March 28, 1904  in Niederbecksen (Bad Oeynhausen) Westphalia; He visited primary school and high school in Bad Oeyenhausen and Bielefeld; He studied law in Göttingen und Berlin
 

1933 university degree

He started to paint and assumed the stage name "Eriksdun"; Exhibitions with the National Gallery and the Prussian Academy of Art in Berlin, Awarding of the Rome Prize. He lived one year in Rome and studied at the German Academy Rome.
 

1934 Exhibition in Berlin

The only exhibition in the Third Reich in Berlin without permission of the Reichskulturkammer; He had to flee. Exhibitions in Alexandria, Cairo and  Jerusalem (1935)
 

1944 He lived at the Chiemsee in Bavaria

 

1947-1981 Exhibitions

 
1952-1957 He stayed in the USA
 
1958 Return to Germany
 
1981 Last exhibition  in Baden-Baden
 
1982 The painter Eriksdun died in Troisdorf