Child's Delight (1872); Forsaken (1873); Preparing for Battle (1875); Bag-Piper (1876); Artist's Studio; Soldier's Lot; Night-Scene in Poland; First Steps; Fortune Teller (1884).—Müller, 309.
KRABBETJE. See Asselyn.
KRAFFT, JOHANN AUGUST, born at
Altona, April 27, 1798, died in Rome, Dec.
29, 1829. Genre painter, pupil of the Dresden
Academy under Hartmann, went in
1824 to Munich, and in 1825 to Vienna.
Finally settled in Rome. Works: Roman
Carnival (1828), Thorwaldsen Museum, Copenhagen;
Old Beggar, Gallery, ib.; Scenes
from German life.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii.
15; Andresen, ii. 345; Raczynski, iii. 318;
Weilbach, 374.
KRAFFT, PETER, born at Hanau, Sept.
17, 1780, died in Vienna, Oct. 28, 1856.
History painter, pupil of the Hanau Academy,
and in Vienna of Füger; went in 1802,
with Schnorr von Karolsfeld, to Paris, where
he became an adherent of David's school.
In 1806 he returned to Vienna, visited Rome
in 1808, painted mostly portraits, but did
not succeed until 1813 in establishing his
fame by a subject from contemporary history.
Member of the Vienna Academy in
1813, of the Hanau Academy in 1815; corrector
and professor at the Vienna Academy
in 1823; director of the Belvedere Gallery
in 1828; honorary member of the Copenhagen
Academy in 1839. Works: Landwehrmann's
Farewell (1813), Landwehrmann's
Return (1820), Vienna Museum;
Archduke Charles at Aspern (1815); Victory
at Leipsic (1816), Furstenberg Gallery,
Donaueschingen; Coronation of Francis I.
(1822), Pesth Museum; Count Nicolaus
Zriny before Szigeth, Francis I. giving Audience
to a Widow (1837); Archduke Charles
and Suite (1838); Meeting of the Allies
after Battle of Leipsic (1839); Emperor
Francis rowing a Man on Laxenburg Pond,
Emperor Francis accompanying Poor Man's
Hearse (1854); Belisarius as a Beggar;
Ossian and Malvina, Liechtenstein Gallery,
Vienna; Manfred; Hermann and Dorothea;
St. Cecilia; Rudolph von Hapsburg and the
Priest; Scenes from Tasso's Jerusalem.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., xvii. 19; Eitelberger,
Kunsthist. Schr., i. 61; Kunstbl. (1857), 4;
Wurzbach, xiii. 106.
KRAHE, JOHANN LAMBERT, born in
Düsseldorf in 1712, died there in 1790.
History painter, went to Italy and painted
altarpieces for the Jesuits. Studied the
antique, Raphael, and the Carraccis, and
was made professor in the Academy of St.
Luke in Rome, and the Academy in Florence.
Recommended in 1755 to the Elector
of the Palatinate, he arranged the Düsseldorf
Gallery, later also the Munich Gallery;
took a very active part in the foundation of
the Düsseldorf Academy, and was its first
director. Works: Six Altarpieces, Jesuit
Church, Mannheim; The Virgin Sleeping,
Mannheim Gallery; Four Ceiling Paintings,
Castle Benrath, near Düsseldorf.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., xvii. 22.
KRAMOLIN, JOSEF, born at Nimburg,
Bohemia, in 1730, died in Carlsbad about
1800. History painter, studied in Prague,
became in 1758 a Jesuit lay brother; painted
numerous pictures for Jesuit churches
and colleges, and lived afterward in Carlsbad.
Works: Last Supper; Christ Crucified;
David; Abraham's Sacrifice; Joseph in
Egypt; John Baptist; Magdalen; Lazarus;
St. Stephen; St. Jerome.—Allgem. d. Biogr.,
xvii. 31; Wurzbach, Biogr. Lex., xiii. 128.
KRANZBERGER, JOSEF, born at Ratisbon,
July 10, 1814, died in Athens, Nov. 26,
1844. History painter, pupil of the Munich
Academy under Cornelius, for whom he executed
the cartoons for the fresco-cycle in
St. Louis' Church. In 1840 he went with
Halbreiter, Claudius Schraudolph, and others
to Athens to paint in the Royal Palace.
He died of the fever while working on a
large altarpiece for the Royal Chapel.
Works: Altarpiece, Ratisbon Cathedral;
Birth of Christ, Patriarchs, St. Louis
Church, Munich; Scenes from Greek War,
Royal Palace, Athens.—Allgem. d. Biogr.,
xvii. 47.
