Johann Victor Krämer

Johann Victor Krämer ( born August 23, 1861 in Adam Thal, Moravia, † May 6, 1949 in Vienna) was an Austrian painter, who used mainly the genre of Orientalism.

Life and work

Kramer was the son of a resident in Adamsthal at Brno engineer. With a scholarship from Johann von Liechtenstein, who was to remain his patron until the 1920s Kramer graduated from 1878 to 1881, the School of Applied Arts in Vienna. 1881 to 1883 he attended the common school of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, from 1883 to 1888 he was a pupil of the famous Austrian history and Oriental painter Leopold Carl Müller.Krämer received as a student several awards, including in 1888 the so-called Rome Prize. The accompanying this travel scholarship took him from 1888 to 1890 to Paris, London, Madrid, Tangier (together with Hermann Bahr ) and Italy.

1891 Chandler moved his studio in Vienna. A two-year Egypt and Palestine journey took him from 1898 to 1900 to Abu Simbel and Baalbek. Kramer had to temporarily operate as a drawing teacher in the family of industrialist Karl Wittgenstein. He was in 1897 one of the founders of the Vienna Secession.

Chandler was artistically active into old age and turned in advanced years increasingly religious themes. In the last few decades has also found increased attention in the context of the world ascertainable increased interest in the Orient painting of the 19th century, the work of Chandler.