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 KRELL, HANS, flourished in Leipsic in 1533-73. Portrait painter, called by his contemporaries the Painter of Princes. Works: Portraits of the Elector Friedrich I. and his Bride (1534), City Library, Leipsic.—W. & W., ii. 434.

KREMER, PETRUS, born in Antwerp, May 9, 1801. Historical genre painter, pupil of Antwerp Academy under Herreyns and Van Brée; won a medal first year and afterwards all first prizes. Having formed himself after Rubens and Van Dyck, he visited Germany, Italy, and France, and studied especially the Netherlandish old masters in the Louvre. Member of Antwerp and Amsterdam Academies. Works: Peter the Great at Zaandam; Mary Stuart and Rizzio; Paul Potter sketching from Nature; Brouwer taking farewell of Craasbeek; Jan Steen and Maria Herkulens; David Teniers sketching a Village Festival; Reading by Vondel; Count van Buren captive in Spain; Duke of Alva and Bishop of Ypern; Van Dyck's Deathbed; Brouwer at Craasbeek's; Lumey, Count van der Marck swearing to avenge the Death of Egmont and Horn, Brussels Museum; Death of Jan van Marnix in Battle of Astruweel; William I. at Admiral de Coligny's; Daniel Seghers in his Studio; Don Carlos and the Great Inquisitor; Jacques Clément preparing for Murder of Henri III.; Visit of Rubens to Snyders; Poacher and his Son; Fruit Market; Children feeding Birds, Bruges Academy.—Cotta's Kunstbl. (1840), 361; D. Kunstbl. (1855), 140; Immerzeel, ii. 136.

KRETZSCHMAR, JOHANN KARL HEINRICH, born at Brunswick, Oct. 17, 1769, died in Berlin, March 2, 1847. History and portrait painter, pupil of Johann Friedrich Weitsch; went in 1789 to Berlin, where he studied at the Academy under Frisch and Meil; travelled through Germany, France, and Italy, and after his return became member of the Academy in 1806, professor in 1817, and senator in 1828. Works: The Great Elector pardoning the Prince of Homburg (1800); The Elector, as Crown Prince, returned from the Netherlands (1802); The Elector haranguing his Troops; Portrait of Wach, Christ and the Woman of Samaria, National Gallery, Berlin.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 141; Cotta's Kunstb. (1847), 100; Rosenberg, Berliner Malerschule, 24.

KRETZSCHMER, (JOHANN) HERMANN, born at Anclam, Pomerania, in 1811. History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil from 1829, in Berlin, of Wach, and from 1831, in Düsseldorf, of Schadow; went to Rome in 1838, visited Sicily, and in 1840-41 Greece, Egypt, and Constantinople, and in 1854-60 France and England. Lives in Berlin; professor since 1856. Joined the campaigns of 1864-66, by order of King William, to paint battle pieces. Works: Red Riding Hood; Cinderella (1836); Castle Yard; Repast in the Desert; Involuntary Embarkation; Caravan surprised by the Simoom (1844), Leipsic Museum; General Seydlitz; Landing of the Great Elector—Prince Waldemar (1850); First Pleasure Drive of Seydlitz as Page with the Margrave of Schwedt, Schwerin Gallery; The Black Man; The First Breeches; The Cat's Child-*bed; Patience; Country Physician; Genre Pictures from the Spreewald (1870-74), Dantzig Museum; Wedding at Gretna Green (1876); Portraits of Mehemet Ali, Abbas Pasha, Abdul Medschid, Queen of Greece, Prince Frederick Charles and Suite (1864).—Müller, K. Lex. d. Gegenw., 310; Cotta's Kunstblatt (1841), 27; D. Kunstblatt (1856), 15; Raczynski, i. 224; Reber, 483; Rosenberg, Berliner Malerschule, 48; Wolfgang Müller, Düsseldorfer K., 315.

KREUL, JOHANN (FRIEDRICH KARL), born at Ansbach in 1804. Portrait and genre painter, studied in the Art School at Nuremberg, and at the age of twenty-two entered the Munich Academy. Had attained reputation in 1830. Works: Baker examining Coin (1841), New Pinakothek, Munich; Baker-Girls; Peasant Women before a Hut; Peasant Doctor; Girl selling Cherries.—*