The Painter of Sterile Rooms and Tin Soldiers Aarhus, 1935. The arrival of Erling Gregers Kristensen marks the beginning of a life defined by the tension between the soft and the hard. Trained as a decorator at Salling in 1953, his hands first learned the precision of craft before they ever sought the abstraction of fine art. He moves through the halls of Svend Engelunds malerskole, absorbing the technical foundations that would later…