Barbara Krafft

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| name = Barbara Krafft

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| birth_name = Maria Barbara Steiner

| birth_date = {{birth date|1764|04|01|df=y}}

| birth_place = Iglau, Margraviate of Moravia

| death_date = {{death date and age|1825|09|28|1764|04|01|df=y}}

| death_place = Bamberg, Kingdom of Bavaria

| occupation = painter

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Maria Barbara Krafft ({{nee|Steiner}}; 1 April 1764 – 28 September 1825) was an Austrian painter, best remembered today for her widely reproduced posthumous portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Life and career

She was born in Iglau (now Jihlava, in the Czech Republic) where her father, the Austrian Imperial court painter Johann Nepomuk Steiner, was working at the time. She was taught painting by her father and accompanied him to Vienna, where she exhibited her first painting in 1786 at the Academy of Fine Arts.

File:Wolfgang-amadeus-mozart 1.jpg by Barbara Krafft, 1819]]

In 1789 she married the Viennese pharmacist Josef Krafft. Their son Johann August Krafft, born in 1792 and taught by his mother, later became a painter and lithographer. For various periods between 1794 and 1803 Krafft worked and travelled alone in Jihlava, Salzburg, and Prague, achieving increasing success primarily as a portrait painter, but also producing genre and religious works. By 1804 she was separated from her husband and settled in Salzburg where she lived until 1821. In the last four years of her life, she was the appointed City Painter in Bamberg where she painted 145 paintings.{{cite book|author=Germaine Greer|title=The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qnBu6eUvx18C&pg=PA306|date=2 June 2001|publisher=Tauris Parke Paperbacks|isbn=978-1-86064-677-5|pages=306–}} She died at the age of 61.

Gallery

File:Barbara Krafft - Die Familie Anton von Marx - 3650 - Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.jpg|The Family Anton von Marx (Vienna, Austrian Gallery Belvedere), 1803.

File:Barbara Krafft - Der bayerische Generalleutnant Clemens Freiherr von Raglovich - 1642 - Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.jpg|The Bavarian Lieutenant General Clemens von Raglovich (Vienna, Austrian Gallery, Inv. No. 1642), around 1813.

File:Barbara Krafft - portrét Marie Terezie.jpg|Portrait of Maria Theresa.

File:Barbara Krafft - Portrait of a Woman with Mob Cap.jpg|Portrait of a Woman with Mob Cap, 1822.

File:Barbara Krafft Bildnis eines jungen Mädchens.jpg|Portrait of a young girl, c. 1825.

File:Wolfgang-amadeus-mozart 1.jpg|Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, posthumous 1819