Until the First World War he worked in a Viennese planning office and as a draftsman for the architect Karl Seidel.

In 1924, the two immigrated to Israel, at the time Mandatory Palestine, together with their daughter Trude Dotan, and Krakouer began working in the planning office of Alexander Baerwald in Haifa.

Krakauer is survived by his wife, the painter Greta Wolf, and his daughter, the archaeologist Prof. Trude Dotan.

Art researcher Gideon Ofrat writes that the exhibition of Van Gogh's paintings that was shown in Vienna before the First World War is evident in the expressionistic charcoal drawings of flowers that Krakauer created in Vienna between 1921-1924 and is also evident in the quick and short lines of Krakauer in the later charcoal drawings of the Judean Mountains that he created between The thirties to the early fifties.

In 1919, Krakauer created "Creation", a cycle of charcoal drawings dealing with Jewish mysticism and the Kabbalistic myth of chaos.

Since his immigration to the Land of Israel, most of Krakauer's work in the field of art has focused on charcoal drawing.

Most of his drawings are horizontal and were made on paper of an almost uniform size of half a sheet (approximately 50 x 70 cm) or slightly less.