Friedrich Carl Gröger (1766 - 1838)

• Was a north-German portrait painter and lithographer.

• Gröger was born in Plön.

• Gröger was the son of a tailor in Plön.

• He was largely self-taught in painting, though he had some contact in Lübeck with Tischbein.

• From 1789 he studied at Berlin's Prussian Academy of Arts.

• He went to Hamburg, then on a study trip to Dresden and Paris, then back to Lübeck, where he worked until 1807.

• Then he alternated between Hamburg, Copenhagen, Kiel and Lübeck, before finally settling in Hamburg in 1814.

• In 1792 Gröger was made an honorary member of the Gesellschaft zur Beförderung gemeinnütziger Tätigkeit in Lübeck.

• Gröger developed from a miniature painter into a portrait painter, who towards the end of his life preferred three quarter bust portraits.

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