and marine painter, pupil of Eschke, later of Steffeck and Gottlieb
Biermann; visited the coasts of the North and Baltic Seas, the Hartz
Mountains, Northern France (1868), Italy (1869), England and Scotland
(1872), then Egypt and the entire East (1873–74), and Italy again
in 1876. Medals in Vienna (1873), and Philadelphia (1876). Works:
Douarenez in Brittany (1869); After the Storm, Faraglioni in Capri
(1872); Grotto in Capri, Golden Horn (1873); Suez (1874), Stettin
Museum; Damascus (1874); Mahmudieh Canal (1875); Baalbec on the
Lebanon; Sea near Alexandria; Colossus of Memnon at Sunset; Sioot in
Upper Egypt in the Twilight.--Müller, 308; Leixner, Mod. K., i. 93;
ii. 119; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch, 341.
KOSAREK, ADOLF, born in Heraletz, Bohemia, Jan. 6, 1830, died
in Prague, Oct. 30, 1859. Landscape painter, pupil of Prague
Academy under Haushofer. Works: View near Parduleitz, Summer Day,
In the Woods (1854); View in Middle Bohemia, Ideal Landscape
(1855); Wood Landscape (1856); Cemetery by the Sea, Winter Night
(1857); Solitude, From the Valleys of Kokorschin, Ideal Landscape
(1858).--Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi, 737.
KOSKULL, ANDERS GUSTAF, Baron, born in Stockholm, Nov. 27, 1831.
Genre painter, studied at first at home, then at the Düsseldorf
Academy under Karl Sohn and Tidemand, and in Paris under Couture;
returned to Sweden in 1860, visited Germany in 1862, studying
especially in the Berlin and Dresden Galleries. Member of Stockholm
Academy since 1868. Works: Beggar Family; Prayer at Church; Peasants
before Church; Chimney Sweep is Coming! Sexton’s Collection; Morning
after the Ball; Girls on the Ice; Oblation at Church; Savoyard in
Prison; Household Work, Stockholm Museum.--Müller, 308.
KOSSAK, JULIUS, born in Lemberg, Galicia, about 1830. Genre and
animal painter; attracted general attention at the exhibitions in
Lemberg when fifteen, studied afterwards in Paris under Horace
Vernet, and became especially an admirable painter of horses.
Works: Horse-Market at Prague; Cossacks on the March; Three
Pictures illustrating the Polish Epic Mohort (1856); Poniatowski
visiting Mohort’s Stud in the Ukraine; Potocki receiving the Staff
Field-Marshal.--Wurzbach, Biog. Lex., xiii. 2.
KOTSCH, THEODOR, born in Hanover in 1818, died at Munich, Nov. 27,
1885. Landscape painter, studied in Hanover and Munich, then from
nature in the Hartz and Solling Mountains, and about 1860 settled
in Carlsruhe, chiefly attracted there by Schirmer. Works: Weser
Landscape, Landscape in the Hartz (1861); Under High Trees (1863);
Late Evening (1865); The Regenstein in the Hartz (1866), Carlsruhe
Gallery; Road with Horseman, Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Kloster
Michelstein in the Hartz, Trees by the Water at Sunset, Hartz
Landscape, View in Upper Bavaria (1867); Oak Hill with Outlook on
Ammensee, German Wood Landscape, Saw-Mill, Evening in June (1874);
Woody Landscape (1877).--Kunst-Chronik, xx. 252; xxi. 52; Müller, 308.
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KOTZEBUE, ALEXANDER VON, born in Königsberg, June 9, 1815. History
and battle painter, pupil of St. Petersburg Academy under Sauerweid;
won great gold medal in 1844, lived then in Paris until 1848,
visited the Netherlands and Italy, and settled in Munich. Medal,
Paris, 3d class, 1867. Works: Storming of Warsaw (1844); Storming
of Schlüsselburg; Battle of Poltava; Storming of Narva; Suvoroff
crossing Panixer Pass; Episode from Battle on the Trebbia; Skirmish
at the Devil’s Bridge; Crossing the Bothnic Gulf; Foundation of St.
Petersburg, Maximilianeum, Munich; General Scheremetjeff receiving
for Peter the Great the Oath of Allegiance of City of Riga.--D.
Kunstbl. (1856), 46; (1857), 62; (1858), 60; Müller, 309; Land und
Meer (1870), i. 27.
KOWALSKI VON WIERUSZ, ALFRED, born in Warsaw, Poland; contemporary.
History and genre painter, pupil of Warsaw, Dresden, and Munich
Academies, at the latter under Alexander Wagner and Joseph Brandt.
Medal, 2d class, Munich, 1883. Many of his paintings are owned
in England and America. Works: Battue in Poland; Duel after the
Ball; Genre Scenes from 18th Century; Military Scenes among
the Circassians; Episodes from the Fights between Russians and
Mountaineers in Transcaucasia; Travelling in Russia, Knoedler
& Co., New York; Hunting Scene (Morgan sale, New York, 1886,
$2,225).--Müller, 309.
KOZAKIEWICZ, ANTON, born in Cracow in 1844. Genre painter, pupil
of Cracow Art School and Vienna Academy under Engerth; settled in
Munich. Works: Last Moments of a Leader (1869); A Recovery (1870);
Grandfather’s Teacher (1871); 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.
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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 Playmate (1879); Bathing Women; Psyche (1884).--Müller, 310.
KRAYER. See _Craeyer_.
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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.
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 Childbed;
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.--Cotta’s Kunstbl. (1839), 84, 131; (1840), 400; (1847),
16; Kugler, Kl. Schriften.
KREUZER, FRANZ, born in Salgen, near Mindelheim, Nov. 12, 1819,
died in Munich, Jan. 25, 1872. Landscape painter, pupil of the
Munich Academy under Zimmermann, and from 1839 connected with the
Xylographic Institute. In 1849 he visited America in company of
Robert Eberle, and returned to Munich in 1852. Works: View near
Oberandorf (1863); Berchtesgaden (1865); Around Schönau (1866);
Hechtsee (1868); Hintersee (1871).--Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 144;
Kunst-Chronik, vii. 236.
KREVEL, LUDWIG, born at Brunswick, Sept. 19, 1801, died at Treves,
May 14, 1876. Portrait and genre painter, pupil of his father, Johann
Wunibald; studied in Paris in 1824–30, and settled in Cologne, whence
he went to Treves in 1868. Works: Portrait of Professor Eduard
d’Alton (1834); Portrait of Christian Rhaban Ruhl (1846); Emmy,
Mannheim Art Union; St. Sebastian, St. Alban’s Church, Cologne;
Girl and Parrot; Venetian Fisherman.--Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 149;
Kunstbl. (1851), 126; Merlo, 244.
KREYDER, ALEXIS, born at Andlau, Alsace, in 1839. Fruit and flower
painter, pupil of Laville of Strasbourg. One of the best living
artists of his class. Decorated the Demidoff Palace and other
buildings. Studio in Paris. Medal in 1867; 2d class, 1884. Works:
Offering to Bacchus (1865), Luxembourg Museum; A Spring (1869);
Appletree in Blossom (1872); Vineyard, Roses (1873); By a Grain-Field
(1874); On the Banks of a Brook (1876); River in Alsace (1880); Roses
and Peaches, Cherries and Flowers (1884); Park Corner, Branch of
Roses (1885).--Larousse.
KRIEBEL, ANTON MARIA LUDWIG, born in Dresden, July 24, 1823. History
and portrait painter, pupil of Eduard Bendemann, and his assistant
in painting frescos in the Palace. Visited Germany, Belgium, and
Holland, and spent some time at Munich, Antwerp, and Paris. Since
1866 professor at Dresden Academy. Works: Wall-Paintings in Church at
Gersdorff (1869).--Müller, 311; Nagler, Mon., iv. 376.
KRIEHUBER, JOSEF, born in Vienna, Dec. 14, 1801, died there, May 30,
1876. Portrait and landscape painter, pupil of the Vienna Academy
under Füger; went in 1818 with Prince Sangusko to Poland. After
his return to Vienna in 1822 he again frequented the Academy, was
a rival of Daffinger as a miniature painter, and became famous for
his portraits in lithograph. His landscapes in oil and water-colour
are truthful in conception and carefully studied. He painted more
than seven thousand portraits. Works: Portraits of all the members
of Imperial Family of Austria, of most of the Austrian statesmen,
generals, church dignitaries, scholars, poets, and artists from 1830
to 1860; Landscapes and Skirmish Scenes; Storm in the Forest (1856),
View on the Danube, Vienna Museum.--Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 166;
Illust. Zeitg. (1876), i. 454; Kunst-Chronik, vi. 94; xii. 336; Land
und Meer (1872), ii. No. 28; Wurzbach, xiii. 219.
KRIGAR, HEINRICH, born in Berlin, May 7, 1806, died there, July 7,
1838. Genre painter, pupil of Berlin Academy and of Wach; visited
Holland, Belgium, and France, studied in Paris under Delaroche,
and returned to Berlin in 1837. Works: Cinderella (1836); St.
Cecilia; Astrologer; Knight and Shield-Bearer (1836), National
Gallery, Berlin.--Cotta’s Kunstbl. (1835), 138; Raczynski, iii. 107;
Rosenberg, Berliner Malerschule, 36.
KROCKOW VON WICKERODE, OSCAR, Count, born at Thine, Pomerania,
March 9, 1826, died in Berlin, Nov. 12, 1871. Animal and landscape
painter, pupil in Berlin of W. Krause and in Munich of Albert
Zimmermann; lived in Paris in 1856–59, visited Tyrol, Switzerland,
Italy, and Russia, and settled in Berlin. Works: Rocks in Lautesch
Valley--Tyrol; Bison-Cow defending her Calf against Wolves;
Bison-Hunt; Evening on Banks of Narewka; 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.
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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, 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).