Peter von Krafft
Peter von Krafft (born September 18, 1861 in Düsseldorf , † after 1894) was a German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Von Krafft studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1878 to 1886 . There were Hugo Crola , Heinrich Lauenstein , Eduard Gebhardt , Julius Roeting , Peter Janssen the Elder. Ä. and Carl Ernst Forberg his teachers. Everyone attested him good to very good performance, the latter “very talented”. Von Krafft especially created watercolors that were shown at the Dresden watercolor exhibitions in 1887 and 1892. For the Stadttheater Düsseldorf , von Krafft, whom the art writer Friedrich Schaarschmidt identified as a representative of naturalism , carried out “strange paintings” on the cove with putti as monthly representatives. He painted the ceiling of the auditorium together with Horace de Saussure under the direction of Wilhelm Sohn . In Düsseldorf von Krafft was a member of the artists' association Malkasten .
literature
- Krafft, Peter von . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 755.
Web links
- Peter von Krafft , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Peter von Krafft , auction results on the artnet .com portal
Individual evidence
- ^ Collection Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016) , PDF
- ↑ See nos. 7843–7845 and 7849–7854 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
- ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt : On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century . Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1902, pp. 284, 307
- ↑ Painting of the ceiling of the auditorium , in a report on the status and administration of community affairs in the city, for the period from April 1, 1885 to March 31, 1886. VII. Educational institutions, art and science. P. 80
- ↑ Inventory list , website on the malkasten.org portal , accessed on June 26, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krafft, Peter von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1894 |