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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.
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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.
