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Growing up in an artistically ambitious family, Johann Peter Krafft began studying at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in the history painting department in 1799 at the age of 19, after having successfully attended a drawing school at a young age. He then continued his education in the art centers of Munich, Strasbourg and Paris. Influenced by his traveling companion Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, who was devoted to romantic painting, as well as inspired by the classicist court painter, Krafft turned increasingly to lucrative portrait painting after his return. Under the spell of contemporary classical trends, he created murals with mythological and historical scenes for the wife of Emperor Franz I, subsequently using the fee to finance a stay in Rome.
In the following years, he could look back on an impressive career and a full resume. Among other things, he became a member of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1813 and the Hanau Academy of Drawing two years later. In 1817 he furnished the Vienna Invalidenhaus with large paintings and in 1823 was appointed corrector and professor of history painting at the Academy. Here he was drawn away from antique imitation to a more realistic observation of nature. The Viennese court commissioned him to decorate the audience chamber in the Imperial Chancellery Wing and appointed him director of the Imperial Picture Gallery. As the official palace director, he and his family moved to his workplace in one of the palace wings and carried out both a redesign of the gallery and a restoration of the badly neglected Belvedere Garden. He was also involved in restoration and monument conservation, for example restoring the frescoes in Schönbrunn's Great Gallery and in the Jesuit Church, and preparing expert reports on monument conservation for Karlstein Castle.
Given his extensive activities for the Viennese court, it is surprising that Krafft found time at all to engage in artistic activities. Nevertheless, he had a great influence on Austrian painting, not least through the paintings Der Abschied des Landwehrmannes (1813) and Die Heimkehr des Landwehrmannes (1820), which refer to the Biedermeier era. His oeuvre includes depictions of Emperor Franz I, Emperor Ferdinand II, Emperor Rudolf II, high-ranking members of the military and nobility, as well as portraits of ladies, oriental depictions, contemporary war scenes, modern event paintings, studies of biblical themes and Greek legends, genre paintings and classicist architectural studies. Johann Peter Krafft remained a resident of the Belvedere until his death in 1856, was subsequently buried in a dignified tomb in Vienna's Central Cemetery, and was posthumously honored with the naming of Krafftgasse in Vienna's Leopoldstadt (2nd district).
Growing up in an artistically ambitious family, Johann Peter Krafft began studying at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in the history painting department in 1799 at the age of 19, after having successfully attended a drawing school at a young age. He then continued his education in the art centers of Munich, Strasbourg and Paris. Influenced by his traveling companion Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, who was devoted to romantic painting, as well as inspired by the classicist court painter, Krafft turned increasingly to lucrative portrait painting after his return. Under the spell of contemporary classical trends, he created murals with mythological and historical scenes for the wife of Emperor Franz I, subsequently using the fee to finance a stay in Rome.
In the following years, he could look back on an impressive career and a full resume. Among other things, he became a member of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1813 and the Hanau Academy of Drawing two years later. In 1817 he furnished the Vienna Invalidenhaus with large paintings and in 1823 was appointed corrector and professor of history painting at the Academy. Here he was drawn away from antique imitation to a more realistic observation of nature. The Viennese court commissioned him to decorate the audience chamber in the Imperial Chancellery Wing and appointed him director of the Imperial Picture Gallery. As the official palace director, he and his family moved to his workplace in one of the palace wings and carried out both a redesign of the gallery and a restoration of the badly neglected Belvedere Garden. He was also involved in restoration and monument conservation, for example restoring the frescoes in Schönbrunn's Great Gallery and in the Jesuit Church, and preparing expert reports on monument conservation for Karlstein Castle.
Given his extensive activities for the Viennese court, it is surprising that Krafft found time at all to engage in artistic activities. Nevertheless, he had a great influence on Austrian painting, not least through the paintings Der Abschied des Landwehrmannes (1813) and Die Heimkehr des Landwehrmannes (1820), which refer to the Biedermeier era. His oeuvre includes depictions of Emperor Franz I, Emperor Ferdinand II, Emperor Rudolf II, high-ranking members of the military and nobility, as well as portraits of ladies, oriental depictions, contemporary war scenes, modern event paintings, studies of biblical themes and Greek legends, genre paintings and classicist architectural studies. Johann Peter Krafft remained a resident of the Belvedere until his death in 1856, was subsequently buried in a dignified tomb in Vienna's Central Cemetery, and was posthumously honored with the naming of Krafftgasse in Vienna's Leopoldstadt (2nd district).
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.jpg "The Entry of Emperor Franz I into Vienna after the Paris Peace on June 16, 1814 by Johann Peter Krafft")
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_(1768-1835)_to_Pres_-_(MeisterDrucke-555846).jpg "The Return of Francis I of Austria to Presburg on 27th November 1809 by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Equestrian Portrait of Holy Roman Emperor Francis II, 1768-1835, 1832 by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "The Farewell of the Militiaman by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "The Defense of Sziget against the Turks by Nicholas Zrinsky, 1825 by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Contour Drawing of a Mother with Four Children by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Prince Pyotr Mikhaylovich Volkonsky, 1814 by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Count Heinrich Bellegarde by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Portrait of Carolina Ferdinanda of Austria, not a Princess of Schleswig-Holstein by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Emperor Franz I of Austria by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Count Ernst von Waldstein-Wartenberg by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Count Carl von Schulenburg by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Archduke Carl on Horseback by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Sortie of Zrinyi during the defence of Szigetvar against the Turks, 1566, 1825 by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "The Homecoming of the Militiaman by Johann Peter Krafft")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1349488).jpg "Rüdiger and Angelica (Study for")
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.jpg "Emperor Franz I of Austria Follows the Coffin of a Poor Man by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Emperor Franz I of Austria by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Anna Katherina Magdalena Krafft, née Donné by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Werner von Trapp by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "General Joseph Baron von Stipsicz by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Field Marshal Lieutenant Johann Ritter von Kutschera by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Emperor Franz I Grants a General Audience by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "The Rhône Glacier by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Count Philipp Grünne by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Heinrich Friedrich Müller by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Count Johann von Paar by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Painter Friedrich Jagemann from Weimar by Johann Peter Krafft")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1347077).jpg "The Turk (\"Infidelity\") by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Still Life with Fruit and Vegetables on White Tablecloth by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Baron Leopold von Rothkirch by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Josef Krafft, the Brother of the Artist by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Count Hieronymus von Colloredo-Mannsfeld by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Ignaz Count Gyulay von Naros-Nemeth and Nadaska in Hungarian Uniform by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Faust on Easter Morning by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Karl Freiherr von Scharfenstein-Pfeil by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Madonna by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "View Over the Danube Canal to Leopoldstadt by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "The Fall of the Angels by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Judith with the Head of Holofernes by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Staff Doctor Sachs by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Josefstadt Glacis with Palais Trautson by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Wedding at Cana by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Marie Krafft at the Desk by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Saint Spyridon by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Orpheus at the Grave of Eurydice by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Fountain in the Peach Garden of the Upper Belvedere (detail) by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Artist Friends Firing a Cannon Shot at the Fortress Michele near Ostia (Ferdinand Jagemann and Peter Krafft) by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Ferdinand Graf von Wartensleben by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Helmet and Round Shield by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Head of a Boy by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Landscape near Baden by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "The Baptism of Clorinda by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Arindal and Daura by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Landscape Study with Burning Villages in the Background by Johann Peter Krafft")
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.jpg "Baron Max von Wimpfen by Johann Peter Krafft")
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