probably formed under the influence of Dirk Hals and Jacob Duck. Was
perhaps the father of the flower painter Cornelis Kick of Amsterdam
(1635–75). Works: Soldiers resting in a Stable (1648), Berlin Museum;
Similar Subject, Wilhelm Gumprecht, Berlin; Soldiers at Cards in a
Barn (? attributed to Jan le Ducq), National Gallery, Edinburgh;
Young Officer in a Landscape, Peter von Semenoff, St. Petersburg;
Return from Falcon Chase (attributed to Van der Helst), Count Moltke,
Copenhagen; Travellers attacked by Bandits, Mrs. Hope, London.--Bode,
Studien 153.
KIEDERICH, PAUL JOSEF, born in Cologne, Sept. 15, 1809, died in
Düsseldorf, April 4, 1850. History and portrait painter, pupil at
Cologne of Kuntz and De Noël, and of the Düsseldorf Academy (1832).
His peculiar, chronicler-like style gives his works no little
interest. Works: Charles V. at San Yuste (1835); Death of Jean de
Lavalette (1840), National Gallery, Berlin; Emperor Frederick II. and
Peter de Vincis (1844); Portraits of Henry V. (Frankfort), Philip the
Good, Charles the Bold, Emperor Maximilian, and Charles V.--Allgem.
d. Biogr., xv. 712; Merlo, 238; Wolfg., Müller, Düsseldf. K., 149;
Wiegmann, 217.
KIELMANN, ANDREAS, born at Wismar, Mecklenburg, in 1825. Genre
painter, studied 1845–47 in Berlin, then in Paris, Brussels, Antwerp,
and other cities, and settled in Schwerin in 1860. Works: Dinner
during Harvest (1861), Prussian Soldier quartered in French Peasant’s
Cottage (1871), Schwerin Gallery.--Schlie, 37.
KIERINGS. See _Keirincx_.
KIERS, PETRUS, born at Grœneveld, Drenthe, Jan. 5, 1807. Genre
painter, pupil in Amsterdam of Douwe de Hoop. Member of Amsterdam
Academy in 1856. Works: Washerwoman (1840); Lady coming from her Room
by Candlelight (1840); Reading of Bible; Letter-Writer; Interior of
Dutch House (1855). His son, George Laurenz (born Jan. 26, 1838), is
a good marine painter.--Immerzeel, ii. 110; Kramm, iii. 872.
KIESEL, KONRAD, born in Düsseldorf, Nov. 29, 1846. Genre painter,
pupil in Berlin of Paulsen, then in Düsseldorf of Wilhelm Sohn.
Works: Mother and Child; Italian Woman; Still Life; In the Library;
On the Balcony; Birthday Morning (1878); Lady with Pigeons; Studio;
Young Mother; Welcome News; Visit at the Studio (1884).--Müller,
298; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xxi. 495; Illustr. Zeitg. (1879), ii. 71,
391; (1882), i. 31, 36; (1883), i. 63; ii. 209, 495; La Ilustracion
(1880), i. 99; ii. 187; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xx. 42.
KIESSLING, PAUL, born in Breslau, Jan. 8, 1836. History and portrait
painter, pupil of Dresden Academy under Julius Schnorr; won in
1856 the first prize, then studied for three years in Italy and
was influenced by Passini; spent one year in Antwerp and returned
via Paris to Rome. Works: Ulysses recognized by Eurycleia (1855);
Venus and Adonis; Rape of Hylas; Rape of Europa; Maiden from Afar;
Dithyrambus; Triumph of Love; Böttger in his Laboratory, Augustus
the Strong visiting Böttger, Albrechtsburg, Meissen; Three Sisters
(1875), Girl’s Head (1880), Dresden Museum.--Müller, 298.
KIETZ, ERNST BENEDIKT, born in Leipsic in 1815. Portrait painter,
pupil in Paris of Delaroche, whose portrait he painted; in 1853
visited Malta, Constantinople, Athens, and Rome, then lived in Paris
until 1870, when he removed to Dresden. Works: Portrait of Richard
Wagner (1844), Mignet, Isabey, Johanna Wagner, Madame Viardot-Garcia,
Heinrich Heine, Tiedge, Oehlenschläger, Frederick Kücken.--Müller,
299.
KINDERMANN, DOMINIK, born at Schluckenau, Bohemia, in 1746, died
in Schönlinde, June 9, 1817. History and portrait painter, pupil
of Vienna Academy; went in 1769 to Rome, where he studied for six
years after Raphael and the Carracci, under Mengs. In Naples he
studied the art treasures of Pompeii, returned to Vienna in 1777 to
paint portraits and altarpieces for churches, and in 1803 settled
in Schönlinde. Works: Magdalen; Christ and the Pharisees; St. John
of Nepomuk; Æneas and the Sibyl crossing the Styx, Prague Gallery;
Martyrdom of St. Lawrence; Birth of Christ; Death of St. Joseph;
Decapitation of St. James; Martyrdom of Apostles Simon and Judas
Thaddeus; Emperor Leopold II. (1792), Strahow Abbey, Prague.--Allgem.
d. Biogr., xv. 756; Dlabacz, ii. 58; Wurzbach, xi. 266.
KINDLER, ALBERT, born in Allensbach, near Constance, in 1833, died
in Meran, Tyrol, April 4, 1876. Genre painter, pupil of the Munich
Academy, then from 1856 of Rudolph Jordan in Düsseldorf. Acquired
well-deserved fame after 1859, when his first large composition
attracted much attention. Works: Young Girl reading to her blind
Grandfather, Publication of New Decree, Provinzial Museum, Hanover;
Expectation, Stettin Museum; Bridal Procession on the Rhine (1859);
Brautexamen; Meeting of Common Council; Tourists; Poaching; Village
Theatre; Tourists and Guides; Opening of the Dance (1868).
Unsuccessful Water Excursion; Rafts on the Inn; Alpine Hunter and
his Sweetheart; Fandango; Ambush.--Allgem. d. Biogr., xv. 768;
Blanckarts, 106; Kunst-Chronik, xi. 498; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 494.
KINDT, ADÈLE, born in Brussels in 1805. History and genre painter,
pupil of Sophie Frémiet, then of Navez; won the first prize of the
Ghent Academy when scarcely twenty-two, then received medals in
Douai (1827, 1831), Cambray (1828, 1834, 1838), Ghent (1835), and
Brussels (1836); member of Brussels (1827), Ghent (1835), and Lisbon
Academies. Works: Last Moments of Egmont, Ghent Museum; Melancthon
predicting Prince Willem’s Future, Elizabeth sentencing Mary Stuart,
Hague Museum; Madonna; Obstinate Scholar; Flower Girl; Happier than a
King.--D. Kunstbl. (1850), 263; Immerzeel, ii. 111; Kramm, iii. 874;
Müller, 299.
KINGS, ADORATION OF. See _Magi_.
KINSON (Kinsoen), FRANCISCUS JOSEPHUS, born at Bruges in 1771,
died there in 1839. History and portrait painter, pupil of Bruges
Academy, where he won several prizes and a gold medal; after painting
portraits at Bruges, Ghent, and Brussels, went to Paris, where he
acquired reputation, was naturalized, and in 1809 appointed chief
painter to Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia. After the fall of
the empire he returned to Paris and in 1817 became painter to the
Duke of Angoulême. Medal, 1808; L. of Honour. Works: Belisarius at
the Death of his Wife Antonina (1817), Bruges Academy; Portrait of
Duke of Angoulême (1819), Bordeaux Museum; Portraits of General
Leclerc, of Bernadotte, King Jerome, and Duke of Angoulême,
Versailles Museum.--Bellier, i. 854; Cotta’s Kunstbl. (1839), 404;
Immerzeel, ii. 113.
KIÖRBOE, CARL FREDRIK, born at Kristiansfeld, Schleswig, in 1800,
died at Dijon, France, Jan., 1876. Animal painter. Member of
Stockholm Academy in 1858; court-painter. Medals: Paris, 3d class,
1844; 2d class, 1846; L. of Honour, 1860; orders of Wasa and Olaf.
Works: Dogs from Tartary, Foxes watching for Prey, Foxes devouring
their Booty (1870), Charles XV. on Horseback, Stockholm Museum;
Mutual Surprise (1874); Inundation; Jumping Fox; Pony and Dog in a
Stable, Ravené Gallery, Berlin.--Art Journal (1876), 106; Bellier, i.
855; Taflor.
KIPRENSKY, OREST, born at Koporie, Government of Petersburg, in 1783,
died in Rome in 1836. Portrait painter, real name Schwalbe; pupil of
St. Petersburg Academy, then spent some time in France and Italy, and
revisited those countries in 1828. Is called the Russian Van Dyck.
Works: Portraits of his Father, Adam Schwalbe, of Thorwaldsen, of a
Young Gardener, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.--Cotta’s Kunstbl. (1836),
436; Waagen, Eremitage, 315.
KIRBERG, OTTO, born at Elberfeld, May 16, 1850. Genre painter, pupil
of Düsseldorf Academy in 1869, continued after the war of 1870–71,
from which he returned wounded, under Wilhelm Sohn until 1879;
visited Holland, and has since taken his subjects from life of Dutch
fishermen. Gold medal, Berlin, 1879. Works: Victim of the Sea (1879),
National Gallery, Berlin; Anxious Hours (1880); Dutch Kirmess (1883);
Dutch Lovers (1884).--Meyer, Conv. Lex., xxi. 499; Kunst-Chronik,
xviii. 402.
KIRCHNER, (ALBERT) EMIL, born in Leipsic, May 12, 1813, died in
Munich, June 4, 1885. Architecture and landscape painter, pupil
of Leipsic Academy, then in Dresden of Dahl and Friedrich, and
finally studied in Munich, whither he returned in 1834 with Genelli.
Works: Bear-Pit (1840), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Tomb of Counts of
Castelbanco in Verona (1845), View in Verona (1851), Three Views in
Heidelberg Castle (1852–54), Courtyard of Palace in Venice (1858),
New Pinakothek, Munich; View of Verona, Piazzetta in Venice, Schack
Gallery, ib.; Lichtenberg Castle in Adige Valley, Pompeii (1860);
Cathedral at Worms, Saint Gall Museum; View of Genoa, Stuttgart
Museum; Trent Cathedral (1861); Convent Yard on the Rhine (1863);
Fontana di Ferro in San Giovanni, Verona (1869); View in Benedictine
Abbey; Choir in Worms Cathedral; Entrance to Cloister Maulbronn; San
Lorenzo in Trieste; Montano and Arco in South Tyrol (1873), Leipsic
Museum; View in Brescia.--Kunst-Chronik, xx. 616; Müller, 299;
Regnet, i. 260; Schack, Meine Gemäldesammlung (1884), 230.
[Illustration: Kirmess, Rubens, Louvre, Paris.]
KIRMESS (Village Fête), _Rubens_, Louvre, Paris; canvas, H. 4 ft. 10
in. × 8 ft. 6 in. At left, rustic houses and trees, and a table with
groups of drinkers and women taking care of children; in centre, a
musician playing and a great round of dancers; at right, a barrel
and various utensils, ducks in a pond, and a dog; in background,
a landscape with hills. Engraved by Fessard; Dupréel in Musée
français.--Réveil, vi. 429; Larousse, ix. 1193.
KIRNER, JOHANN BAPTIST, born at Furtwangen, Baden, June 24, 1806,
died there, Nov. 19, 1866. Genre painter, pupil in Augsburg under
Zimmermann and Rugendas in 1822–24, then of Munich Academy. Painted
at first religious pictures. Lived in Rome in 1832–37, and again
in 1849, court-painter in Carlsruhe in 1842–44, then at Munich
until 1864, when he returned to Furtwangen. Works: Nasenwirth;
Raphael and Michelangelo (1833); Improvisatore, Workmen in Campo
Vaccino; Schweizer Gardist (1831), Italian Woman at Cradle (1835),
Carlsruhe Gallery; Improvisatore (1836), Kunsthalle, Hamburg;
Pilgrim Resting, Old Italian with Dog, Mannheim Gallery; Shepherds
in Sabine Mountains, Ave Maria, Suabian Watchman, Camaldulensian
Monks (1839); Hunting Scene; Sunday Morning in Black Forest, Return
from Agricultural Feast (1841), Guardia Civica, Cobbler with Child,
Carlsruhe Gallery; Maternal Joy, Country Physician, Fortune-Teller
(1847), Badenese Insurgents in Flight (1849), New Pinakothek, Munich;
Episode from Hebel’s Poem: Statthalter von Schopfheim, Fürstenberg
Gallery, Donaueschingen; Suabian Civic Guard in 1848 (1849), Leipsic
Museum.--Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 26; Dioskuren (1867), 48; D.
Kunstbl. (1858), 121; Kunst-Chronik, ii. 45; Regnet, i. 266.
[Illustration: Throwing a Kiss, Jean Baptiste Greuze, Alfred de
Rothschild, London]
KISS, THROWING A (Baiser Envoyé), Jean Baptiste _Greuze_, Alfred de
Rothschild Collection, London. A lady, seen half-length, at a window
hung with curtains, throwing a kiss with her right hand; her left
holds a paper lying on the window-sill. One of the painter’s best
works.--Art Journal (1885), 217.
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KLEIN, JOHANN ADAM, born in Nuremberg, Nov. 24, 1792, died in Munich,
May 21, 1875. Genre, landscape, and animal painter, studied first in
Nuremberg under J. Caspar van Bemmel and A. Gabler, then from 1811 at
the Vienna Academy; after living in Frankfort, Vienna, Rome, Naples,
and Nuremberg, settled in Munich in 1837. His compositions are full
of life and variety. Member of Munich Academy in 1867. Works: On
the Danube; Market Scene; Berchtesgaden; Halt before an Inn; Span
of Oxen in Campagna (1821), Gotha Museum; Hungarian Carters (1828),
Wallachian Freight-Wagon (1829), Animal-Tamers before Tavern (1830),
National Gallery, Berlin; (1821), Gotha Museum; Field Smithy, View on
Bridge of Salara near Rome (1821), Schleissheim Gallery; View on the
Tiber near Rome (1822), New Pinakothek, Munich; Russian Freight-wagon
and Cossacks, Hunting Dog (1823), Wall Ruins, Freight-wagon with
Seven Horses (1856), Germanic Museum, Nuremberg; Wallachian Carters
Resting on the Danube (1834–38), Königsberg Museum; Gypsy Camp
(1856), Kunsthalle, Hamburg.--Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 95; Dioskuren
(1862), 193; Illustr. Zeitg. (1875), i. 471; Jordan (1885), ii. 117;
Kunst-Chronik, xi. 270; Regnet, i. 287.
KLEIN, JOHANN (EVANGELIST), born in Vienna in 1823. Fresco painter,
pupil of Vienna Academy under Führich. Went for a short time to
Venice, and then studied Byzantine and mediæval wall-paintings in
monasteries and churches in the Bukowina, in Carinthia, Soest,
Brunswick, Cracow, and in and near Vienna. Member of, and professor
at, Vienna Academy. Works: Wall-Paintings in Episcopal Chapel at
Czernowitz and in St. Mary’s on Capitol at Cologne; Glass Paintings
in St. Antonio’s, Padua, in St. Stephen’s, Vienna, in Kempten and
Elten on the Rhine, in Münster, Bochold and Lüdinghausen, Westphalia;
in Cathedral at Linz, in Nancy, in Hungary, etc.--Müller, 299;
Wurzbach, xii. 50.
KLEIN, WILHELM, born in Düsseldorf in 1821. Landscape painter, pupil
of Düsseldorf Academy under Schirmer; perfected himself on journeys
through various parts of Germany, in Tyrol, Switzerland, North Italy,
Belgium, and Holland. Works: Wood Landscape (1844); Mountainous
Landscape (1845), Brunswick Art Union; Winter Landscape, Provinzial
Museum, Hanover; Rocky Valley (1852), Düsseldorf Art Union; Forest
Brook (1853), Königsberg Art Union; King’s Oak near Arnsberg, Inn
Valley (1855); Road to Village, Cologne Art Union; Carters’ Tavern
(1858), Berlin Art Union; Lake Garda (1858); Inn Valley (1859); View
in the Engadin (1863); Sea-Coast, Liège Art Union; Winter in Tyrol
(1865), Bremen Art Union; Weinburg (1868); Lake Hechtsee in Bavaria;
Landscape after Rain.--Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldorfer K., 359.
KLENGEL, JOHANN CHRISTIAN, born at Kesselsdorf near Dresden, May
5, 1751, died at Dresden, Dec. 19, 1824. Genre and landscape
painter, pupil of Dresden Academy under Dietrich, then studied in
Italy (1790–92), and was for many years at the head of the Dresden
landscape painters; especially successful in giving morning and
evening light-effects, and a close imitator of nature. Member of
and professor at Dresden Academy. Works: Apollo tending Herd of
Admetus, Similar Subject, Dresden Museum; Winter Landscape with
Skaters, Shepherdess and Herd at Sunset, Gotha Museum; Landscape
with Herd (copy after Berghem), Leipsic Museum; Cows in Pasture
(1779), Schwerin Gallery; Animals driven by Peasant Boy across Water,
Shepherd Family with Cattle Resting, Stuttgart Museum.--Allgem.
Zeitg. (1825), Beilage No. 51; Nagler, vii. 51.
KLENZE, LEO VON, born near Hildesheim, Feb. 29, 1784, died at Munich,
Jan. 26, 1864. Architecture and landscape painter, pupil in Paris of
Bourgeois, but more famous as an architect; visited England, Italy,
Greece, and seven times St. Petersburg, where he built the Hermitage
and St. Isaac’s Cathedral. Works: View of Agrigentum; Zanthe in the
8th Century; Ideal View of Athens under Hadrian, New Pinakothek,
Munich; Interior of Saracen Palace at Ravello, Schack Gallery, ib.;
Pirano in Istria, Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhagen.--Brockhaus, x. 336;
Dioskuren (1864), 49; Nagler, vii. 53; Regnet, i. 296; Schack, Meine
Gemäldesammlung (1884), 232.
KLEVER, JULIUS VON, born at Dorpat, Jan. 19 (31), 1850. Landscape
painter, pupil of St. Petersburg Academy under Michael Clodt and
Warjabjoff, and studied from nature in the Baltic provinces. Member
of St. Petersburg Academy in 1878, professor in 1881. Many of his
best pictures are in the St. Petersburg Academy. Works: Esthonian
Fisherman’s Hut; Twenty Degrees Réaumur; Russian Autumn; Twilight by
the Sea; Calm; Esthonian Mill; Isle of Nargö near Revel; Deserted
Park in Livonia; Russian Forest in Winter; Still Life in the Woods;
Wilted Leaves.--Meyer, Conv. Lex., xxi. 502.
KLEYN, LORENZ LUDWIG, born at Demarara, British Guiana, in 1826.
History and portrait painter, pupil of Antwerp Academy and student
of the works of the old masters in Amsterdam. Went in 1851 to Italy,
spent many years at Rome and, after a sojourn in Stuttgart, returned
to Holland in 1868. Works: Eliezer and Rebekah; Samaritan Woman at
the Well; Hagar and Ishmael; Banquet of Belshazzar; Wedding at Cana
(1864); Portraits of Princess Alexandrine of Prussia and Pope Pius
IX.--Christl. Kunstbl. (1864); Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 501.
KLINKENBERG, JOHANNES CHRISTIAAN KAREL, born at The Hague, Jan. 14,
1852. Painter of city views, pupil of Christoffel Bisschop; studio
at The Hague. Works: Great Square at Nymwegen (1877), Episode in
Siege of Leyden, Amsterdam Museum; Fish-Pond at The Hague, Rotterdam
Museum; Spanish Quay at Rotterdam, View at The Hague (1880); Old
Women’s Hospital at The Hague (1881).
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KLÖCKER VON EHRENSTRAHL, DAVID, born in Hamburg in 1620, died in
Stockholm in 1698. German school; history and portrait painter, pupil
in Amsterdam of Georg Jacobs, then in Italy of Pietro da Cortona;
became Swedish court-painter in 1661, was ennobled by Charles XI.
in 1674, and made court-intendant in 1690. Works: Descent from the
Cross, Last Judgment (1694), St. Nicholas, Stockholm; Coronation of
Charles XI., Drottningholm; Portrait of Charles XI.--Faber, iii. 378.
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KLOEBER, AUGUST VON, born in Breslau, Aug. 21, 1793, died in Berlin,
Dec. 31, 1864. History painter, pupil of the Berlin Academy; joined
the volunteers in 1813; after the peace studied in Paris, and then
lived four years in Vienna, where he painted the best known portrait
of Beethoven. In 1820 he went to Berlin, and in 1821 to Italy, whence
he returned, in 1828, a confirmed imitator of Correggio. Member of
the Academy and professor in 1829. Works: Perseus and Andromeda,
Toilet of Venus (before 1828); Greek Flower Girl (1833); Bacchus
watering the Panther (1834); Sakuntala, Harvest, Hüon among Herdsmen
(1837); Jubal, Inventor of Flute (1839), Horse-Pond, Cupid and
Psyche, Education of Bacchus (1860), in National Gallery, Berlin;
Psyche awakened by Cupid (1854); Cupid whetting his Arrows.--Allgem.
d. Biogr., xvi. 200; Dioskuren (1865), 8; Jordan (1885), ii. 118;
Bruno Meyer, Studien, 11; Bosenberg, Berliner Malerschule, 88.
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KLOMP, AELBERT, born at Amsterdam in 1618, died there, Dec. 20, 1688.
Dutch school. Landscape and animal painter; precursor of Albert Cuyp
and Paul Potter, who painted in his manner. He enlivened his pictures
with figures, animals, and splendid fountains. Works: Landscapes with
Cattle, in Museums at Amsterdam (3), Bordeaux, Brussels, Dresden,
Gotha, Stockholm; do. (1663), Copenhagen Gallery, Städel Gallery,
Frankfort; Oldenburg (1688), Schleissheim, and Schwerin Galleries;
Historical Society, New York.--Dohme 1ii.; Immerzeel, ii. 116; Kramm,
iii. 878; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 440; Schlie, 315; Westrheene, Paulus
Potter, 15.
KLOSE, WILHELM, born in Carlsruhe in 1830. Landscape painter, pupil
of Munich Academy, influenced by Rottmann; visited the Tyrolese
and Swiss Alps, went in 1851 to Dalmatia, thence to Rome, where he
remained until 1855. After a short stay in Carlsruhe, he visited
Sicily and Greece (1867–69), then in 1875 Egypt, Asia Minor, and
Athens. Works: Fourteen Views in Greece and Italy; Four Landscapes
in South Etruria, Festhalle in Carlsruhe; Four Italian Landscapes,
Municipal Bath in Carlsruhe; Five Italian Landscapes, Villa Klose at
Thun, Switzerland.--Müller, 300.
KLOSS, FREDERIK THEODOR, born at Brunswick, Sept. 19, 1802, died at
Copenhagen, June 9, 1876. Landscape, marine, and portrait painter,
pupil in Berlin of Schumann, then of Eckersberg in Copenhagen,
whither he returned in 1828, having visited Prague, Breslau, and
Dresden, in 1825–27; made a sea voyage with the cadets’ ship in 1830,
and became instructor of drawing; went in the frigate Thetis to Italy
in 1843, and to the Färöe Islands in 1844. Member of Copenhagen
Academy in 1840. Order of Dannebrog, 1847; Professor, 1853. His
principal works are in the royal collections. Works: Battle of
Lyngörshavn; Prince Christian after skirmish near Själlandsodde; Open
Sea with Vessels.--Weilbach, 362.
KLOTZ, JOSEPH, born in Munich in 1795, died there in 1830. Landscape
painter, son and pupil of Matthias Klotz (portrait painter,
1784–1821, and court-painter, first in Mannheim, then in Munich);
then studied in Paris and Berlin, and succeeded his father as
court-painter in Munich. In 1814 his picture representing the burning
of Moscow was very popular. Works: View of Munich in 1817 (figures
by Albrecht Adam), View of Schwabinger Gate in Munich (1817), New
Pinakothek, Munich.--Lipowsky; Nagler, vii. 68.
KNAB, FERDINAND, born in Würzburg, June 12, 1834. Architecture and
landscape painter, pupil in Munich of Ramberg and Piloty; visited
Italy in 1868 and settled in Munich, where he painted for the
Royal Winter Garden, and Villa Linderhof. Court-painter. Works:
Court-Yard in Nuremberg; Court-Yard in Florence; Ruins of Roman
Palace (1866); Castle Ruin of the Renaissance; Tomb in Roman Campagna
(1866); Convent Yard with Well (1868); Roman Landscape (1872);
View in Neglected Park (1874); Roman Hot Springs; Corinthian Ruin
in the Campagna; similar subject (1885).--Dioskuren (1872), 211;
Kunst-Chronik, xx. 671; Leixner, D. mod. K., i. 114; Land und Meer
(1883), ii. 839.
KNACKFUSS, HERMANN, born at Wissen. History painter, pupil of
Düsseldorf Academy under Bendemann; took part in the campaign of
1870–71, went to Rome in 1875, and became professor at the Cassel
Academy in 1880. Works: Attila’s Queen receiving Presents from
Byzantine Ambassadors (1876); First Fruits (1877); Capture of
Frederick the Fair in Battle of Mühldorf, 1322 (1883); Painter’s
Studio in 16th Century (1884). Frescos: Ceiling in new Government
Building at Cassel; Two Episodes in History of German Empire (1884),
Vestibule of Railway Station at Strassburg; Battle of Turin (in
progress), Arsenal, Berlin.--Kunst-Chronik, xvii. 222; xviii. 435,
531; Leixner, Mod. K., i. 98; Müller, 301.
KNAPP, JOHANN, born in Vienna, Sept. 5, 1778, died at Schönbrunn,
near Vienna, Feb. 18, 1833. Flower painter, pupil of Vienna Academy
under Drechsler; called to arms in 1797, he returned, after the
conclusion of peace, to his profession, and in 1804 became painter to
the Archduke Anton. His most remarkable work is a bouquet (7 ft. × 5
ft.), composed of flowers of all climes, painted for Baron Jacquin in
1820–21. Other works: Flower and Fruit-Pieces, Vienna Museum; Styrian
Alpine Plants (2), Joanneum, Gratz; Roses, Hyacinths, Exotic Flowers,
Flora Alpina (300 water-colors), for Archduke John; Flower-Piece
(1816), Weimar Museum; Alpine Plants Exotic Plants, for the Grandduke
of Weimar.--Hormayr’s Archiv. (1821), 138; Wurzbach, xii. 137.
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[Illustration: Signature]