Figurative painter and draughtsman, born in Cape Town, South Africa. He studied fine art at University of Witwatersrand, 1979–82, then for his master’s degree in mid-1980s at Royal College of Art. In Johannesburg had a solo show with Shell Gallery. In England exhibited with LG, in Camden Annual and in 1985 was a prize winner in John Moores Liverpool Exhibition. Arts Council holds his picture Restless Tonight, 1986, bought from Fischer Fine Art, Harris Museum and Art Gallery in Preston owning The Ventriloquist’s Convention, 1988. In 2002, Krut’s Heartless Roach won 2nd Prize in The Jerwood Drawing Prize and was shown at Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, and Glasgow School of Art, 2002–3. There was a solo show, Lie Still My Beating Heart, at Domo Baal in 2004.