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.—*
