German sculptor, active in Hungary. He settled in Hungary c. 1761-2, when along with such other artists as Johann Lukas Kracker and Johann Hennevogel he was invited to decorate the Premonstratensian abbey church in Jasov, built by Franz Anton Pilgram. For this, his greatest work (probably completed by 1766), he produced huge white stucco sculptures of St Roch, St Nicholas, St Ambrose, St Sebastian, St James the Apostle and the Blessed Joseph Hermann as well as the tabernacle, the gilded wooden ornamental statue of the pulpit and the statues of St Stephen and Emeric on the façade. The surviving contract also provides documentary evidence that Krauss was the creator of the magnificent marble and stucco high altar (1769-70) of the Jesuit church in Eger, and it is also known that he produced sculptures of SS Stephen and Ladislas (1777) for the high altar of the parish church in Szakolca (now Skalice).

Many of his later works, which are in a more subdued, classicist style, can be found in the region around Jászó; these include statues in the parish churches of Felso-Mecenzéf (now Visny Medzev; 1778), Rudnok (1780-81) and Miszlóka (now Myslava; 1790s), as well as the stone carvings on the façade and banisters of the town hall and county hall in Kassa (now Kosice, Slovakia), which date from the early 1780s.