Hinrich Kroeger

Hinrich Kröger, born and raised in Berlin, is a painter and ceramic artist.
Hinrich Kröger’s atelier is based in the heart of Berlin’s booming
art market in Berlin-Mitte. Founded in 1996, it shows the artist’s own work
which consists of paintings, sculptures and ceramics.
His work as a ceramist is a synthesis of visual art and form where
he skillfully and whimsically combines elements of painting
with the shapes of pottery.

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Atelier Hinrich Kröger
It's greyhounds and gigolos who are wearing old-fashioned haute couture at Hinrich Krögers studio, painted onto faiences, engobes, clays and porcelains. On a decorative wall plate, a French bulldog, painted gold and turquoise, seems to go cross-eyed while trying to throw lascivious looks at a tea service draped with golden pugs. In the shop window, large poodles with raspberry-red noses are sniffing each other on a floor vase, right next to Luigi – the sculpture of a well-endowed man, posing like a stripper with a tattooed erection, around which the whole figure pivots on something that looks very much like a cream cake. Here at Gipsstrasse 13 in Berlin-Mitte, Hinrich Kröger has been producing and exhibiting his art since 1995, paintings on ceramics, sculptures made from clay, drawings and more.
Tchaikovsky´s Swan Lake, balloon-sized boxes with sunken worlds depicted on them, white lions, snow hares draped with luxurious scarfs and smoking cigars, tattooed boys and expensive girls, sailors, a tree of paradise into which airplanes are crashing – a veritable new cosmos was created by Hinrich Kröger. His works reflect his mastery with these materials, each is a unique piece made in this studio, kneaded, turn...