Johann Victor Krämer

Johann Victor Krämer (23 August 1861 in Adamsthal – 6 May 1949 in Vienna) was an Austrian painter and photographer, working generally within the Orientalist genre.

He received a scholarship from the Prince, who was to remain his patron until the 1920s, and studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Applied Arts) in Vienna from 1878 to 1881.

[1] With patronage from Leopoldine Wittgenstein, he spent 1898–1900 travelling in Egypt and Palestine, reaching as far as Abu Simbel and Baalbek.

[1] At the age of 49 he married Emilie Franziska Bohlinger in Vienna on 1 January 1911, and together they had a daughter Maria and sons Hans and Gustav.

[1] He died in Vienna on 6 May 1949, leaving behind a large body of work, including paintings in oil, watercolour, gouache and pastel, as well as many drawings and photographs and much correspondence.