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 Wild Boars, National Gallery, Berlin.—Jordan, 183.

KRODEL, WOLFGANG, 16th century. One of a family of artists that flourished in Saxony through several generations. Probably pupil of Cranach. Works: Last Judgment (1528), Dessau Gallery; Judith and Holofernes (1555), Darmstadt Museum. By his nephew, Mathias Krodel, who died in 1605, there is a Male Portrait (1591) in the Dresden Gallery.—W. & W., ii. 433; Nagler, Mon., v. 361.

KROGK (Krock), HENDRIK, born at Flensburg, July 21, 1671, died at Copenhagen, Nov. 18, 1738. History and portrait painter, first instructed by a portrait painter at Husum, then studied in Copenhagen, and in 1693 went with Count Gyldenlöve to Italy, which he visited again in 1698 and 1704, when he studied in Rome under Carlo Maratti; was also repeatedly in France. After his return he painted many pictures, especially ceilings, for the royal palaces at Copenhagen, Hirschholm, Fredensborg, and Frederiksborg. Works: Meeting of Jacob and Rachel, Gallery, Copenhagen; Last Judgment, Palna Chapel, ib.; Portrait of Frederik IV.—Weilbach, 381.

KRONBERG, JULIUS, born at Karlskrona, Sweden, Dec. 11, 1850. History and genre painter, pupil of Stockholm Academy; won a prize in 1870, set out to travel in 1873, and has since lived in Paris and Munich. Works: Slumbering Wood-Nymph; Spring; Queen of Sheba.—Müller, 311.

KRONBERGER, KARL, born at Freystadt, Upper Austria, March 7, 1841. Genre painter, pupil of Munich Academy under Anschütz and Hiltensperger. Many of his pictures are in America. Works: Law Proceedings (1873); Raree-Show; Politicians (1874); Last Will; In Great Distress; Another Comet, Harmless Waylayers (1875); At the Baptismal Feast, Aunt is Coming (1876); Theft discovered Too Late (1880).—Müller, 311.

KRÖNER, (JOHANN) CHRISTIAN, born at Rinteln, Hesse, Feb. 3, 1838. Animal painter, studied chiefly from nature in the Bavarian Alps, also in Munich and Düsseldorf. Gold medals in Berlin, 1876, 1879. Works: Deer-Hunt (1864); Deer-Troop (1865); Stag-Hunt (1866); Red-Deer Hunt, After the Fight (1867); In the Morning, Stags Fighting (1868); Stags before the Fight, After the Fight (1872); Deer in Beech-Wood, Boar-Hunt (1874); Wood Landscape with Stags (1875), Düsseldorf Gallery; Stag breaking from the Woods, Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Deer Grazing (1877); Autumn Landscape with Deer, National Gallery, Berlin; Winter Landscape with Boar-Herd; Boar-Hunt, Winter (1878); Deer in Wood; Scene during Pause in Hunting, File of Wild Boars (1882); Stags in Morning Fog on the Brocken (1885).—Jordan, ii. 128; Kunst-Chronik, xxi. 62; Müller, 311; Zeitschr. f. b. K., x. 160; xii. (Mittheilungen, v. 51); xxi. 52.

KRÖYER, PETER SEVERIN, born at Stavanger, Norway, June 24, 1851. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy, and in Paris of Bonnat; gold medal, 1873, for cartoon of David before Saul after slaying Goliath; studied from nature on his travels in Holland, Belgium, Spain, and Italy, especially in Southern Italy. Medals: Paris, 3d class, 1881; 2d class, 1884. Works: Daphnis and Chloë (1879); Sardinière at Concarneau (1880); Village Hatter (1881); Model Studio, Italian Workmen digging in Fields (1882); Portrait of Meldahl (1882); Portrait of the Flower Painter Ottesen; Skagen Fishermen, Artists' Breakfast at Skagen (1884).—Sig. Müller, 189; Weilbach, 386; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xvi. 295; xvii. 275, 352.

KRUG, ÉDOUARD, born at Drubec (Calvados); contemporary. History and portrait painter, pupil of Cogniet. Medal,