biografía de Peter I KRÄMER (1823-1907)

Lugar de nacimiento: Zweibrücken, Germany

Lugar de defunción: Brooklyn, NY

Direcciones: Phila., active 1848-57; Germany, 1858-; NYC and Brooklyn

Profesión: Painter and lithographer

Exposiciones: Boston AC, 1883; NAD, 1883

Comentarios: Came to the U.S. in 1848. He worked for lithographers Peter S. Duval (see entry) and the Rosenthal brothers (see entries for Louis, Max, Morris, and Simon) in Philadelphia before returning in 1858 to Germany, where he set up a business in Stuttgart. He was later exiled for caricaturing the Bavarian king and returned to the U.S., where he opened a studio in NYC. His son and grandson, namesakes, also were artists. Also appears as Kraemer.

Fuentes: G&W; Thieme-Becker; Peters, America on Stone; Phila. CD 1852-59; 7 Census (1850), Pa., LI, 923; Perry, Expedition to Japan.