• 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.
