Wilhelm Kray
Wilhelm Kray (born December 29, 1828 in Berlin , † July 29, 1889 in Munich ) was a German portrait , genre and landscape painter and illustrator .
Life
Kray worked as a goldsmith before 1848 . From 1848 he studied at the Royal Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin with Julius Schrader , Wilhelm Schirmer and Hermann Stilke . Between 1856 and 1872 he took part in the Berlin Academy exhibitions. In 1859/60 he was in Paris and visited the atelier of Alexandre Cabanel and Paul Baudry . He then went back to Berlin, where he mainly worked as a portraitist. Kray was based in Rome from 1867 to 1871. From there he made numerous trips to Naples. He became a member of the German Artists' Association . From 1878 he lived in Vienna and from 1879 to 1888 took part in the international art exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace .
literature
- Hyacinth Holland : Kray, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, pp. 370-373.
- Gitta Ho: Kray, Wilhelm . In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital . Volume 2: 1844-1870. de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-031477-9 , p.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 334
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kray, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German portrait, genre and landscape painter and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1828 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 29, 1889 |
| Place of death | Munich |