Johann Peter Krafft

Works by this Artist

Triumphal Entry of Franz I After the Peace of Paris, 16 June 1814
Johann Peter Krafft, 1833-37

Studies

Hanau Akademie (1790-99); with Heinrich Füger at Vienna Academy (Akademie der Bildenden Künste, 1799-1802); with Jacques-Louis David and François Gérard (1802-04, Paris)

Career

1813 – joins Vienna Academy

1823-8 – becomes professor of history painting at Vienna Academy

1828 – appointed director of Imperial Art Gallery (Vienna)

Travels

Paris (1802-04); Rome (1808)

Commissions from

Francis I (Emperor of Austria)

Important Artworks

Yeoman’s Farewell, 1813 (Belvedere Museum, Vienna)

Readings

Frodl-Schneemann, Marianne. Johann Peter Krafft, 1780-1856. Munich: Herold, 1984 (in German)