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 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.