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Fritz Tröger (born May 19, 1894 in Dresden , † April 5, 1978 ) was a German painter and graphic artist , a member of the Dresden Secession in 1932 and the artist group Das Ufer .

Fritz Tröger was born in Dresden in 1894 to Richard Tröger, a non-commissioned officer in the rank of a field weaver . Fritz Tröger suffered from a chronic ear problem and was very hard of hearing . From 1900 to 1905 he attended the middle school and from 1905 to 1911 the municipal secondary school . From 1911 to 1915 he graduated from the tailoring trade school in Dresden and worked as a volunteer in various tailoring companies.

From 1915 to 1918 Tröger studied at the State Academy for Applied Arts in Dresden with Margarete Junge and Paul Rößler . From 1918 to 1925 she studied at the art academy in Dresden , u. a. with the professors Max Feldbauer , Otto Hettner and Otto Gußmann . In 1919 and 1920 he was a costume adviser at the Meiningen Court and State Theater. In 1924 he undertook a study trip to Italy .

From 1925 Tröger worked as a freelance painter in Dresden. He undertook a study trip to Spain and Portugal in 1927 and was a teacher at the art school of Guido Richter in Dresden from 1928 to 1930. Tröger undertook a study trip to Czechoslovakia and Austria in 1929 and a study trip to France in 1930. From 1929 to 1935 he was also a teacher at the Army Handicraft School in Dresden.

Between 1929 and 1933, Tröger experimented with ceramic wall painting in the Meissen porcelain factory and made some murals. Fritz Tröger was a member of the group of artists Free Saxon Artists around Peter August Böckstiegel , Conrad Felixmüller , Otto Griebel , Gustav Alfred Müller and Friedrich Skade . In 1932 Fritz Tröger became a member of the Dresden Secession in 1932 . Since 1933 he was a member of the NSDAP , but received from 1943 to 1945 exhibition and sales ban. Five of his works were confiscated. [3]

From 1936 Tröger owned a country studio in Laske near Kamenz and found a "second home" in his own words. In 1947 he became a member of the artist group Das Ufer . From 1949 regular study visits to the MTS ( machine-tractor station ) in Barnitz near Meißen followed and from 1951 work stays in the lignite works " John Schehr " in Laubusch near Hoyerswerda . There he headed the circle for artistic folk creation and had a work contract since 1961.

In 1955 and 1961 he traveled to Paris . Tröger died in Dresden in 1978. His burial place is in the heath cemetery there .