Karl Kröner

Karl Kröner (7 April 1887 – 3 October 1972) was a German painter and writer. Between 1904 and 1908 he studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in

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. He worked till 1910 as a freelancer in Chemnitz and studied again from 1910 to 1914 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Dresden under

Eugen Bracht Eugen Felix Prosper Bracht (3 June 1842 – 5 November 1921) was a German landscape painter. Biography Bracht was born in Morges, Waadt (near Lake Geneva in Switzerland) of German parents. His family later moved to Darmstadt, Germany, where ...

and Gotthardt Kuehl. After going on a study trip to the

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and the

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, 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

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. In 1923 and 1924 he went on two trips to

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. Between 1924 and 1933 he was a member of the Artists' Association. 1887 births 1972 deaths 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists German male painters {{Germany-painter-stub