Johann Peter Krafft belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Johann Peter Krafft as German-Austrian painter (1780-1856).
Johann Peter Krafft was born at Hanau in 1780. His recorded nationality is Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel. He trained at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Academies set the rules in this period - what counted as a serious subject, and who was allowed to train.
He worked as painter.
Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
That the work was made in Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Johann Peter Krafft died in 1856, aged 76. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
