Wilhelm Krafft (painter)

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Johann Wilhelm Krafft (* around 1808; † 1865 in Düsseldorf ) was a German genre and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

The Henoumont family at Haus Traar , around 1835

Coming from Berlin , where Krafft was one of the best students of the portrait painter Wilhelm Ternite , he studied from 1832 to the school year 1835/1836 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . In the "1. Class ”he was taught there by the academy director Wilhelm Schadow , who attested him good performance. In the last year of school he “almost never came to the academy”. The student lists of the academy close with the following remark: "lost his place because of work outside the academy". From 1833 he exhibited in Düsseldorf. Around 1835 Krafft was repeatedly a guest of the family of Carl Josef Henoumont and his wife Maria Anna, née von Daniels, at Haus Traar . During this time he portrayed the couple's family in a group picture. In Düsseldorf , where he worked until around 1850/1860, Krafft was one of the members of the Malkasten artists' association . In the address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf from 1855, both a painter Wilhelm and a draftsman Johann Baptist with the family name Krafft were listed. Later he is said to have also worked in Vienna. In addition to portraits, landscapes and genre images, Krafft produced humorous illustrations, including for the Düsseldorf monthly issue .

In the publication Die Fahnenburg and their picture gallery (1873) by Anton Fahne , the author listed his portrait in a fur skirt, painted by Wilhelm Krafft in 1854, with the addition that he was born in Berlin and died in Düsseldorf in 1865.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Atanazy Raczyński : History of modern German art , 1841. In: Painter of various subjects , p. 135 Fifth chapter, Berlin IX .: "Ternite (Wilhelm), from Neustrelitz; born 1786 ”: He considers Knebel and Krafft to be the best of his students.
  2. ↑ See nos. 7839–7842 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy : Krafft, Wilhelm, school year 1832 (25 years old), 1833, 1834 (23 years old), 1835 (24 years old) , website in the archive portal .nrw.de ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
  3. ^ Johann Josef Scotti : The Düsseldorf painter school, or art academy in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836, and also before and after . Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 130, No. 93 ( digitized version )
  4. ^ Collection Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016) , PDF
  5. ↑ Inventory list , website on the malkasten.org portal , accessed on June 26, 2017
  6. ^ Painter Krafft . In: Address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf , 1855, p. 75
  7. ↑ The Fahnenburg picture gallery . Inside: IV. Landscape room south wall: 141. Krafft, Wilhelm, born in Berlin, since 1833 in Düsseldorf, † there 1865: Half-length portrait of A. Fahne in a fur skirt, h 66 cm, w 55 cm, with the full name of the artist and the year 1854 , p. 117
personal data
SURNAME Krafft, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krafft, Johann Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH 1865
Place of death Dusseldorf