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 3d class, 1880. Works: Good Samaritan (1863); Communion of Jeanne d'Arc in her Prison (1864); Vender of Silhouettes (1865); Portrait of Artist's Mother (1869); Entombment (1870); Colonel Langlois (1876), Caen Museum; A Gamin (1877); Martyrdom of St. Philomene (1878); Genius of Christianity (1879); Death of Saint-Clair (1880); Symphorosus and his Seven Sons condemned to Death by the Emperor Hadrian (1882); After the Storm (1883); Œdipus and Antigone (1885).

KRÜGER, EUGEN, born at Altona, Dec. 26, 1832, died at Düsternbrook, near Kiel, July 8, 1876. Landscape and animal painter, pupil in Vienna of Gurlitt (1852), with whom he visited Hungary; then went with Adolf Schreyer to Düsseldorf, where he acquired reputation as a painter of animals of the chase. In 1859 he moved to Hamburg, whence he visited Great Britain, France, Switzerland, Italy, and Sicily, returning to Hamburg in 1876. Received a gold medal from the King of Prussia for his album, called Wood and Game, 1860. Wood with Brook in Morning Fog (last work), Kunsthalle, Hamburg.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 227; Kunst-Chronik, ii. 62; vi. 9; xii. 449; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 513.

KRÜGER, FRANZ, born at Radegast, Dessau, Sept. 3, 1797, died in Berlin, Jan. 21, 1857. Portrait and horse painter, self-taught; often called Pferde (Horse) Krüger, for his skill as a painter of horses. Visited St. Petersburg in 1844 and 1850. Member of Berlin Academy in 1825, professor and court-painter. Works: Parade of Regiment of Cuirassiers in Berlin, with more than 100 portraits (1831, for the Czar); Parade of the Guards before Frederick William III. (1839), Homage to Frederick William IV. in 1840, Royal Palace, Berlin; Czar Nicholas and Suite on Horseback (1834); Frederick William IV. with Suite (1842); Start for Chase, Return, Horse-Stable, Dead Rabbit, Sketch to Czar Nicholas and Suite (1834), National Gallery, Berlin; Portrait of King Frederick William IV., Stable Interior (1855), Ravené Gallery, ib.; King Ernest August of Hanover, Provinzial Museum, Hanover; do., and other members of Royal Families of Hanover and Hohenzollern, Royal Gallery, ib.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 227; Jordan (1885), ii. 129; Kunstblatt (1857), 43, 50, 209; Kunst-Chronik, xxi. 113; Rosenberg, Berliner Malerschule, 284; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xvi. 337.

KRÜGER, KARL (MAXIMILIAN), born at Lübbenau, July 18, 1834, died at Gohlis, near Dresden, Jan. 30, 1880. Landscape painter, pupil of Munich Academy under Ott and Richard Zimmermann, then of Weimar Art School under Michels; travelled in Germany and North Italy, and lived in Dresden since 1870. Called Spreewald-Krüger from the scene of many of his landscapes. Works: Spreewald (1866), National Gallery, Berlin; Mill in Spreewald, Stettin Museum.—Jordan, 187; Kunst-Chronik, xv. 310.

KRUSEMAN, CORNELIS, born in Amsterdam, Sept. 25, 1797, died at Lisse, North Holland, Nov. 14, 1857. History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil of Charles H. Hodges (portrait painter, 1764-1837), Ravelli, and of J. A. Daiwaille; then studied in Paris and Rome, returned to Amsterdam, became member of the Academy, and afterwards removed to Lisse. Order of Lion in 1831; Commander of Oak-Crown Order; gold medal in Brussels in 1851. Called the Italian Kruseman to distinguish him from his cousin, Jan Adam. Works: Praying Family; Sermon of John Baptist; Magdalen; Belisarius as a Beggar; Entombment; Ecce Homo; Scene from Dutch-Belgian War of 1831; Prince of Orange wounded at Bantersem; Old Woman Reading, Happy Household (1817), Departure of Philip II. from Scheveningen (1832), Devotion, Of the same Opinion, Entombment (1830), Amster