French Painter, active ca.1500 Related Paintings of MASTER of Saint Gilles :. | The Mass of Saint Giles | The Baptism of Clovis | The Mass of St Gilles | The Mass of St Gilles | St Gilles Mass | Related Artists:
Henry MoretFrench Impressionist Painter, 1856-1913
Johann Peter Krafft (15 September 1780 - 28 October 1856) was a German-Austrian painter.
Krafft was born in Hanau, Hesse. At the age of ten, he began his art studies at the Hanau Akademie. In 1799, he moved to Vienna and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts for three years under the tutelage of Heinrich Feger. From 1802 to 1808, he studied in Paris, with Jacques-Louis David and François Gerard, and then in Rome. On his return to Vienna, he became a successful professional painter, producing numerous portraits.
In 1828, Krafft became director of the Imperial and Royal Picture Gallery in Belvedere Palace.
Johann Peter Krafft died at the age of 76 in Vienna, where he was buried at the Zentralfriedhof.
Archip Iwanowitsch Kuindshipainted Nacht in ca. 1905e1908