Karl August Krazeisen (28 October 1794 Kastellaun – 27 January 1878

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) was a Bavarian soldier,

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and

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Biography

Military career

There is no information regarding Krazeisen's childhood. In 1812 he entered the

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and took part in the 1813/14

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. In 1826, having by then promoted to lieutenant, along with 11 other Bavarians he was sent to Greece, where the

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was going through a critical phase, after the troops of the

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had received assistance from his vassal

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. It was the first public action to support the Greek struggle, taken by another European state, as Bavarian King Ludwig I was an ardent

. Under the command of

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, Krazeisen took part in the operations from November 1826 till April 1827 ( Siege of the Acropolis and

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).Kathimerini vom 2.Januar 2006: «Greek heroes’ images recorded»
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he was promoted to

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Artist

Krazeisen was not a professional artist, but having the ability to draw, he used his stay in Greece to create portraits of the heroes of the war, the sketches of camps, costumes, uniforms, battle plans. He returned to Munich in 1827,Brigitte Salmern: Johann Michael Wittmer (1802—1880), Leben und Werk, p. 130 published his Greek album, which from 1828 to 1831 was republished seven times His collection, made from life, represents the main pictorial archive of the personalities of the Greek War of Independence. Subsequently Krazeisen was honoured by Greece with the

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Gallery

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Literature

* Hajo Knebel: EberhardKieser, Karl Krazeisen, Eduard Bäumer — drei Künstler aus Kastellaun in der Kunstgeschichte. — In: HunsrückerHeimatblätter. — 1989. S. 338—341. — 1989. * Georg Kaspar Nagler, Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon 1839, S. 168

References

External links

Information on the Greek parliament website

Kathimerini article of January 2, 2006: "Greek heroes’ images recorded"

Ethnos-online of October 14, 2008: "The photographer of the heroes of '21» (in Greek)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Krazeisen, Karl German philhellenes in the Greek War of Independence 1794 births 1878 deaths German war artists Bavarian generals German military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars