Josef Kramolín

Josef Kramolín

Josef Kramolín (also: Cramolini; Grammolin; Kramolini ; born April 11, 1730 in Nimburg , † May 2, 1802 in Karlsbad ) was a Bohemian painter and fresco artist .

biography

Kramolín learned painting from a Jesuit . In 1758 he joined the Jesuit order as a lay brother. After the order was abolished in 1773, he stayed in Osek for a short time and then settled in Karlsbad, where he became councilor. In 1799 he visited Prague to study the paintings in churches and libraries. He paid particular attention to the frescoes by Franz Anton Maulbertsch in the library of the Strahov monastery .

Josef Kramolín painted almost exclusively religious pictures, and his clients were predominantly church institutions and orders. His brother Wenceslaus Kramolín (Václav Prokop Kramolín, July 4, 1733 to January 23, 1799) was also a painter and is proven to be the master of the Prague colliery for 1772.

Works (selection)

• Lesser Town of Prague , St. Nicholas: Dome frescoes
• Iglau , Jesuit Church: frescoes and altar paintings (1766)
• Hohenbruck , Andreaskirche: frescoes (1771)
• Prague, St. Clemens, altar painting (1772, together with Wenceslaus Kramolín )
• Duppau , grammar school church: ceiling fresco and altar painting (1778)
• St. Joachimsthal , deanery church: altarpiece (1785)
• Rokytzan , deanery church: painting of the main altar (1786)
• Pürstein : Altarpieces (1797)
• Kolín , St. Bartholomew's Church: painting of the main altar (1801)

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Kramolin, Joseph and Wenzel . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 13th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1865, p. 128 ( digitized version ).
• Rudolf Müller:  Kramolin, Joseph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 31. (Also contains a short entry on brother Wenzel Kramolin).
• Karl Kühn: Kramolin, Josef . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 420-421 .
• Igor Votoupal: K původu malířů Josefa (173–-1802) a Václava (1733–1799) Kramolínů . In: Institute of the History of Art of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ed.): Umění . tape 52 , no. 5 , 2004, ISSN  0049-5123 , OCLC 887091831 , p. 452-454 (Czech).
• Carl Nödl: The Kramolin Saga. The story of an extraordinary family = Saga rodu Kramolinu. Dejiny vyjimecne rodiny = The Kramolin saga. The history of an extraordinary family . Österreichischer Kunst- und Kulturverlag, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85437-279-5 .