Erik Sprohge (1932 -) was born in Riga, Latvia, spent his early childhood in Germany and came to Houston, Texas in 1937.  At sixteen he was a student of Lowell Collins and Robert Preusser, at the Museum School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.  He received a degree in architecture at The Rice Institute and in 1954 won the William Ward Watkin Traveling Fellowship enabling him to travel extensively in Europe.  He also studied painting at the Institute Allende in San Miguel de Allend (showing 500 of 1234 characters).