Career
He primarily painted religious-themed frescoes. He was baptized as Josef Karel. He also lived in a Benedictine monastery in the church.
After Prague began besieging Prussians he briefly returned to Nymburk, then soon went to Kutná Hora, in seminars at the church to complete his education.
In Kutna Hora he received the rudiments of the art of painting from the artist Vit Hrdlicka. In 1751 Kramolín "s mother died, so he returned to Nymburk, and become a painter.
From that experience he got the basics, and learned to mix colors and perfected his drawing style. At this time, he got his first individual contract.
In 1757 he went to Vienna, where on October 5, 1757 he studied at Hofakademie der Maler, Bildhauer und Baukunst (Imperial and Royal Court Academy of painters, sculptors and architecture).
As a lay brother he worked until the Order"s suppression in 1773. The archives can be found records of his stay on the Order track - in 1758 was listed as a novice in Brno, and in 1759 as a novice in college at Saint Nicholas in Prague"s Lesser Town. Between 1760 - 1770 he was listed as a lay brother in college at Saint Clement in the Old Town of Prague (Clementinum), in 1771 again at Saint Nicholas, and in 1772 in Chomutov.
During this period he painted mainly altar architecture in monastic churches.
In Karlovy Vary they bought a house in the Spanish Cross, later still house the Blue Star. In 1802 he became a painter to the city council.
In Prague"s Strahov library is a record of his visit: "Di Decembris 10 A 1799. Josephus Kramolin Frater Senior exjesuita Pictor Historiarum Carolo Thermensis." He died in Karlovy Vary of pneumonia in April 1802.