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KRAUS, FRIEDRICH, born at Krottingen, East-Prussia, May 27, 1826. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Königsberg Academy; studied then in Paris (1852-54) and Rome (1855), and settled in Berlin in 1855. Works: Farm Yard with Children (1859), Ravené Gallery, Berlin; Children playing with Young Dogs, Stettin Museum; New Dress; Game of Chess; Reading Girl; City News; Sleeping Girl; Burgomaster Six at Rembrandt's; Potato Harvest; Weekly Visit; Driving to Dinner; Sebastiano del Piombo's Visit to Titian; Titian and his Sweetheart; Morning Call (1872); Bacchante Awakening (1880).—Müller, 309; Rosenberg, Berliner Malerschule, 318.

KRAUS, GEORG MELCHIOR, born in Frankfort, July 26, 1737, died in Weimar, Nov. 5, 1806. Landscape painter and engraver, pupil at Cassel of Johann Heinrich Tischbein, and in 1761-67 at Paris of Greuze and Boucher. Went to Weimar in 1775, and in 1780 was made director of the Art Academy. Member of Vienna Academy in 1768, afterward of Berlin Academy. Works: Mother feeding her Child (1762), Leipsic Museum; Male Portrait, Weimar Museum; Portrait of Goethe (1776); Illustration of Wieland's Oberon; Swiss Peasant Houses.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 72; Nagler, Mon., iii. 62; Goethe, Aus meinem Leben, Bk. xx.

KRAUSE, WILHELM, born in Dessau, Feb. 27, 1803, died in Berlin, Jan. 8, 1864. Marine painter, studied in Dresden in 1821-24, then in Berlin under Gropius and Wach; made his first attempt at marine painting in 1828, though he had never seen the sea, and then visited Rügen in 1830, Norway, 1831, Holland 1834, Paris and Normandy in 1836, and at last the Mediterranean. Member of the Berlin Academy in 1832, and professor in 1834. Works: Strand of Scheveningen; Mouth of the Seine; View of Arcona; Return of the Fisherman; Coast of Pomerania (1828), Storm at Sea (1831), Scotch Coast in a Storm (1858), National Gallery, Berlin; Approaching Storm (1847), Ravené Gallery, ib.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 81; Cotta's Kunstblatt (1840), 264; (1842), 103; D. Kunstblatt (1852), 400; Jordan (1885), ii. 126; Rosenberg, Berliner Malerschule, 333.

KRAY, WILHELM, born in Berlin; contemporary. Landscape and genre painter, spent some time in Rome and Venice, and then settled in Vienna. Works: Young Italian Woman with her Child; Fisherman and Mermaid; Ave Maria; Night in Bay of Naples; Undine listening to Tale of a Play-*mate (1879); Bathing Women; Psyche (1884).—Müller, 310.

KRAYER. See Craeyer.

KRELING, AUGUST VON, born at Osnabrück, May 23, 1819, died in Munich, April 23, 1876. History painter, pupil in Munich of Cornelius; visited Venice in 1847 and became, in 1853, director of the Art School in Nuremberg, which he thoroughly reorganized and brought into great repute. Works: First Harvest after Thirty Years' War; Erwin von Steinbach in the Woods (1849), Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Coronation of Louis the Bavarian, Maximilianeum, Munich; Ceiling in the Theatre at Hanover; Huguenots on Night of St. Bartholomew, Nuremberg Museum; Visit to Monastery; Monk as Painter; Monk as Sculptor; Blind Man's Buff; Education of Wolfram von Eschenbach (1853), Kunsthalle, Hamburg.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 115; Illust. Zeitg. (1873), i. 271; (1874), ii. 467; (1876), i. 468; Nagler, Mon., i. 350; Land und Meer (1872), No. 5; (1876), ii. 735.