of Düsseldorf Academy under Sohn and Schadow in 1846–52, studied
then in Paris until 1860; visited Italy in 1857–58; lived in Berlin
in 1861–66, and at Düsseldorf from 1866 to 1874. Professor at the
Berlin Academy from 1874 to 1884, when he resigned. He is one of the
leaders of the younger Düsseldorf school, and the foremost genre
painter in Germany. Member of the Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Amsterdam,
Antwerp, and Christiania Academies; Medals: Paris, 2d class, 1853;
1st class, 1855, 1857, 1859; Medal of Honour, 1867; L. of Honour,
1859; Officer, 1867; Knight of Prussian Order of Merit, etc., and
many medals. Works: Peasant Dance (1850); Cheaters at Cards (1851),
Düsseldorf Gallery and Leipsic Museum; Bee-Keeper, Age does not
protect against Folly (1851); Funeral in the Woods (1852); Countess
Helfenstein begging for her Husband’s Life. Pickpocket (1852); The
Promenade (1855), Luxembourg Museum; Woman playing with Cats (1856),
two others, Ravené Gallery, Berlin; The Toper, Kunsthalle, Hamburg;
Country-Town People in a Village Inn, Wiesbaden Gallery; Morning
after Kirmess, Golden Wedding (1858); After the Christening (1859);
Wochenstube, Tyrolese Brawlers before their Parson (1864); Gypsies
Resting (1865), Königsberg Museum; Juggler; Table in the Corner
(1869); _Children’s_ Festival (1869), National Gallery, Berlin;
Funeral in a Hessian Village (1870); Beggar Boy (1871); His Highness
Travelling; Child with Doll; Old Woman with Cats; Organ-Grinder;
Council of Peasants; In a thousand Fears, Die Geschwister (1872);
Holy Family (1875); Tavern Scene (1876); The Refractory Model (1877);
Solomonic Wisdom (1878); Glimpse behind the Scene (1880), Dresden
Gallery; Little Pigs (1881); Portraits of Professors Mommsen and
Helmholtz (1881), National Gallery, Berlin; Student’s Visit Home in
Vacation (1884). Works in United States: Road to Ruin, Female Head,
Rag Baby, W. H. Vanderbilt, New York; _Holy_ Family, None but the
Cats, Miss C. L. Wolfe, ib.; Going to the Dance, August Belmont, ib.;
City Belle, M. Graham, ib.; Little Scholar, Gretchen, Girl’s Head, W.
Rockefeller, ib.; Priest and Poacher, T. R. Butler, ib.; Rococo, J.
C. Runkle, ib.; Baby, D. O. Mills, ib.; Little Gretchen, C. S. Smith,
ib.; Study of Head, J. T. Martin, Brooklyn; Butcher Boy, Portrait,
D. W. Powers, Rochester, N. Y.; City Girl, G. Whitney, Philadelphia;
Blacksmith, J. D. Lankenau, ib.; Mud Pies (1873), W. T. Walters,
Baltimore; German Subject, Leland Stanford, San Francisco; Unwelcome
Visitor, Charles Crocker, ib.; Child, R. C. Taft, Providence;
Female Head, J. A. Brown, ib.; Old Age and Childhood, Longworth
Collection, Cincinnati; Head of Madonna, Hurlbut Collection,
Cleveland; Wood-Chopper, S. A. Coale, St. Louis.--Gartenlaube (1869),
12; Kunst-Chronik, i. 137; v. 82, 143; vi. 141; xii. 19; Illust.
Zeitg. (1864), i. 115; (1881), ii. 368, 374; Müller, 301; Wolfgang
Müller, Düsseldorf K., 253; Leixner, D. mod. K., i. 67; Nord und Süd,
xiv. 117; Hecht, i. 124; Riegel, Kunst-Studien, 408; Reber, 618;
Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 177; Vom Fels zum Meer, i. 302; Wiegmann,
333; Zeitschr. f. b. K., iv. 17; vi. 148; x. (Mittheilungen, iii.
65); xii. 388.
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KNELLER (Kniller), Sir GODFREY, Bart., born in Lübeck, Aug. 8,
1646, died at Twickenham, Nov. 7, 1723. Dutch school; portrait
painter, reputed to have studied under Rembrandt and Ferdinand Bol
at Amsterdam, and in Rome (1672–74) under Carlo Maratta and Bernini
(?); went afterwards to Venice, where he was well received by the
leading families, whose portraits he painted. On his return from
Italy, lived for a time in Hamburg, but was induced to go to England
in 1674, and received such a flattering reception from Charles II.
that he determined to remain there. After the death of Sir Peter Lely
he was made court-painter, and he received equal favour from James
II., William III., who knighted him (1692), Queen Anne, and George
I., who made him a baronet (1715). His forty-three portraits of the
members of the Kit Kat Club, and his Beauties at Hampton Court, are
examples of his facile and meretricious style and corrupt taste. That
he was the leading portrait painter of his day shows the low state
of art at the time. “Where,” says Walpole, “he offered one picture
to fame, he sacrificed twenty to lucre.” The National Portrait
Gallery contains fifteen portraits by him, including Addison,
Congreve, Watts, Wren, James II. (1685), and Lady Russell. Portraits
of Addison, Pope, Dr. Wallis, and of himself, hang in the Bodleian
Library, Oxford. Other works: Portrait of the Engraver John Smith
(1696), National Gallery, London; William III. landing at Margate
(1697), Peter the Great, Queen Mary II., William Duke of Gloucester,
John Locke, Sir Isaac Newton, The Hampton Court Beauties (8), Child
with Lamb, Hampton Court Palace; James II., The Converted Chinese,
Windsor Castle; Portrait of Canon François de Cock, Antwerp Museum;
Male Portraits (3), Brunswick Museum; Copernicus in his Study,
Königsberg Museum; Queen Henrietta Maria, Old Pinakothek, Munich;
John Locke, Sculptor Gibbons, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Man in Coat
of Mail, Standard-Bearer (1648, copies after Rembrandt), Schwerin
Gallery; A Princess of Portugal, Princess de Barbensson, William
Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury (1716), Vienna Museum. His elder
brother, John Zachary Kneller (1635–1702), who went to England with
him, painted architectural decorations in fresco, and portraits and
still life in oil. A portrait of William III. of Orange by him is in
the Schwerin Gallery.--Ackermann, Porträtmaler Sir G. K.; Ch. Blanc,
École allemande; Engerth, Belved. Gal., ii. 226; Kramm, iii. 878;
Taylor, Fine Arts; Hamburg, Künst. Lex. (1854); Walpole, Anecdotes;
Cat. Nat. Port. Gal.; Redgrave.
KNIGGE, OTTO, born in Berlin, Dec. 14, 1835, died there, March 5,
1883. History and portrait painter, pupil of Weimar Art School,
then in Paris of Couture and in Berlin of Oskar Begas; visited
Italy in 1869. Works: Altarpiece, St. Peter’s, Berlin; Healing of
Sick Woman, Elizabeth Hospital, Berlin; Loreley, Breslau Gallery;
Morning Dew; Joseph of Arimathea bringing the Crown of Thorns to the
Virgin.--Dioskuren (1866); Illust. Zeitg. (1867–68); Kunst-Chronik,
xviii. 395; Müller, 353.
KNIGHT, DANIEL RIDGWAY, born in Philadelphia, Pa., contemporary.
Genre painter, pupil of the École des Beaux Arts, Paris, in 1872,
of Gleyre, and of Meissonier in 1876. Exhibits at Paris Salon and
at the National Academy. Studio at Poissy, France. Works: The
Veteran (1870); Othello in the House of Brabantio (1871); Fugitives,
Antiquary, Dividing the Profits, Old Beau (1873); Strolling in the
Garden (1874); Washerwomen (1875); Market Place at Poissy, Harvest
Scene (1877); Pot au Feu (1878); In Mourning (1882); Sans Dot (1883);
Noonday Rest (1884); Chatterboxes (1885), Reichard & Co., New York.
KNIGHT, JOHN PRESCOTT, born at Stafford in 1803, died in London,
March 28, 1881. Portrait painter, pupil of H. Sass and George Clint,
and of Royal Academy in 1823; became an A.R.A. in 1836, and R.A. in
1844. Was professor of perspective in Royal Academy in 1839–60, and
secretary in 1847–73.--Art Journal (1849), 209; (1881), 159; Sandby,
ii. 174.
KNIGHT ERRANT, Sir John Everett _Millais_, Bart., Charles H. Wilson,
Esq., M.P.; canvas, H. 6 ft. × 4 ft. 5 in. A woman, made prisoner
by brigands and stripped, is bound nude to a tree in a wooded rocky
landscape; near her, one of the robbers lies on the rocks dead, slain
by a knight in armour, who is cutting her bonds with his sword; in
the distance, shadowy figures flying in fear. The only example by
Millais of a full-length, life-size, nude female figure. Painted in
1870 in six weeks.
KNIGHT AND TWO WOMEN, _Tintoretto_, Dresden Gallery; canvas, H. 4 ft.
11 in. × 8 ft. 2 in. A knight in a gondola, which a helmsman steers,
rescues two nude women from a tower. From the reserved pictures in
1861.
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KNIGHT’S VISION, _Raphael_, National Gallery, London; wood, 7 in.
sq. A youthful knight asleep upon his shield at foot of a laurel
tree; a lovely girl stands near his head, with a sword in one hand
and a book in the other, while a second watches at his feet and
presents a myrtle blossom; background, a landscape with a village,
and a fortress on a hill. Painted in Perugia in 1504–5(?). Long in
Borghese collection, whence passed to W. Young Ottley, who sold
it in 1801 to Sir Thomas Lawrence for £470; next passed to Sir M.
Sykes, whose heir, Rev. Thomas Egerton, sold it in 1847 for £1,050
to National Gallery, which possesses also the original sketch in pen
and ink. Engraved by L. Gruner.--C. & C., Raphael, i. 199; Müntz, 95;
Passavant, ii. 16; Perkins, 60; Richter, 53.
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KNILLE, OTTO, born at Osnabrück, Sept. 10, 1832. History painter,
pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Karl Sohn, Th. Hildebrandt, and
Schadow; studied then in Paris under Couture, lived four years in
Munich, three years in Italy, and settled in 1866 in Berlin, where,
in 1875, he became professor at the Academy. Senator in 1882. Gold
medal, Berlin, 1881. Works: Death of Totila (1855); Corpse of
the Cid frightening the Moors; Nun led to be immured, Provinzial
Museum, Hanover; Cycle from Thuringian Legends; Fiesole in Monastery
of San Marco; _Tannhäuser_ and Venus (1873), National Gallery,
Berlin; Emperor Hadrian and Antïnous; Four Friezes representing
Antique, Scholastic, Humanistic, and Modern Culture, Berlin
University.--Müller, 302; Leixner, D. mod. K., ii. 87; Rosenberg,
Berliner Malerschule, 164; Wolfgang Müller, Düsseldorfer K., 162;
Zeitschr. f. b. K., xvii. 55; xx. 94.
KNIP, HENRIETTE. See _Ronner_.
KNIP, JOSEPHUS AUGUSTUS, born at Tilburg, Aug. 3, 1777, died at
Berlicum, near Bois-le-duc, Oct. 1, 1847. Landscape painter, son and
pupil of Nicolaas Frederik Knip (flower painter, 1742–1809); went
in 1801 to Paris, where he was befriended by Gerard van Spaendonck;
received a pension in 1808, from Louis Napoleon, King of Holland, and
soon after went to Rome, whence he visited Naples and Calabria, and
returned home with many sketches in 1813; lived at Amsterdam until
1821, went to Paris in 1823, painted much for the royal family and
received a gold medal, returned to Amsterdam in 1827, and became
blind in 1832. Member of Amsterdam Academy. Italian Landscapes by
him are in the Amsterdam (1818) and Rotterdam Museums. His sister
Henriette Geertruida (born at Tilburg, July 19, 1783, died at
Haarlem, May 29, 1842), was a skilful flower painter, pupil in Paris
of Spaendonck and of Jan Frans Dael. Medals, Paris, 1819; Amsterdam,
1822.--Immerzeel, ii. 117; D. Kunstbl. (1852), 310.
KNOLLER, MARTIN, born at Steinach, Tyrol, Nov. 8, 1725, died in
Milan, July 24, 1804. History and portrait painter, first instructed
by an obscure artist in Innsbruck, then pupil of Paul Troger, who
accidentally discovered his talent in passing through Steinach on his
return from Italy in 1745, and took him to Vienna. Having obtained
the great prize at the Academy in 1753, returned to Tyrol, and after
two years went to Rome, where he studied the old masters, and freed
himself from Troger’s mannerism. He found an adviser in Raphael Mengs
and a warm friend in Winckelmann. In 1755 appointed professor at the
Academy of Milan, where he spent forty prosperous years. In 1790–92
he was in Vienna, and painted Leopold II. and Francis I. He excelled
as a portrait and fresco painter, and decorated a number of churches
in the villages of Tyrol, Bavaria, and Lombardy, and many palaces
in Milan. Works: Young Tobias healing his Father’s Eyes; Stoning
of St. Stephen (1754); Conception of Mary, Birth of Mary, Marriage
of Mary; Madonna, St. Joseph Dying; Beheading of St. Catharine;
St. Sebastian, Pietà (1790), Holy Family (1794), Kloster Ettal,
Bavaria; St. Charles Borromeo (1764); Raising of Lazarus; Scipio at
Carthage; Christ at Emmaus; Martyrdom of St. Sebastian; do. of John
the Baptist; Eight Altarpieces in Stiftskirche at Gries, near Botzen;
Christ on the Cross (1796), Holy Family, Joseph and Potiphar’s
Wife, A Saint of the Servite Order, Portrait of Raphael Mengs, do.
of Himself (2), Count Firmian and Suite in a Landscape, two other
Male Portraits, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck; Judgment of Paris (1786),
Palais Taxis, ib.; St. Benedict and St. Scholastica presented to the
Trinity by the Virgin (1770), Schleissheim Gallery; Male Portrait
(1791), Vienna Museum; Assumption, St. Sebastian restored by Irene,
Portrait of Raphael Mengs, do. of Himself (1803), three other Male
Portraits, Academy, Milan; over thirty pictures in Royal Palace and
Chapel, ib.; others in Palazzo Groppi, Palazzo Melzi (4), Mainoni
Collection (5), ib.; Portraits of Emperors Leopold II. and Francis
II.; do. of Himself, Castle Leopoldkron, near Salzburg, and Sacristy
of Stiftskirche at Gries. Frescos: The Heavenly Glory (1760, a model
specimen of fresco painting), Kloster Ettal, Bavaria; Five Ceilings,
Royal Palace, Milan; Apotheosis of Alberich the Great, Rinaldo
in Gardens of Armida, Wedding of Rüdiger and Radamante, Palazzo
Belgiojoso, ib.; Rape of Ganymede, and two others, Palazzo Groppi,
ib.; Scenes in Life of St. Augustine, Stiftskirche at Gries; Descent
from the Cross, Campo Santo, Rome.--Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 321;
Göthe, Winkelmann, 280; Hormayr’s Archiv. (1826), xvii. 800; Kugler
(Crowe), ii. 557; D. Kunstbl. (1858), 99; Kunst-Chronik, xx. 421;
Wurzbach, xii. 161.
KNORR, GEORG, born at Löbau, West-Prussia, in 1845. Genre painter,
pupil of Königsberg Academy under Rosenfelder, studied then in Berlin
and Düsseldorf, and afterwards visited Italy. His subjects are mostly
humourous. Works: Invitation to Tea (1867); In the Museum (1872); New
Inmates (1874); At Boarding School (1875); Taken in the Act (1877).
KNORR, HUGO, born in Königsberg in 1834. Landscape painter, pupil of
Königsberg Academy; won first prize and completed his studies under
Behrendsen, travelled in the Hartz Mountains in 1858, and in Norway
in 1861. Professor at the Polytechnic School in Carlsruhe since
1873. Works: Before the Storm; After the Storm; View of Witches’
Dancing-Ground in the Hartz; Norwegian Glacier; Norwegian Waterfall;
Fjord in High Plain; Hardanger Fjord; Wreck on Norwegian Coast; Surf
on Norwegian Coast; Flying Dutchman (1870).--Kaulen, 171; Müller, 303.
KNÜPFER, NICOLAUS, born at Leipsic in 1603, died at Utrecht or at
The Hague in 1660 (?). Dutch school; history, genre, and portrait
painter, pupil of Abraham Bloemaert at Utrecht, whither he came from
Magdeburg in 1630, and where he soon became one of the best artists
of the Dutch school, enjoying the favour of distinguished patrons,
especially of the King of Denmark. He was the first master of Jan
Steen, and, according to Kramm, removed afterwards to The Hague.
Works: Solomon sacrificing to Strange Gods, Brunswick Museum; The
Seven Works of Mercy, Cassel Gallery; Paul and Festus, Mercury and
Psyche, Copenhagen Gallery; Artist and his Wife making Music, Dresden
Museum; Venus asleep and Cupid, Oldenburg Gallery; Esther before
Ahasuerus, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Allegory on Chase after Fortune
(1651), Joseph explaining the Dreams, The Washing of Feet, Schwerin
Gallery.--Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 331; Descamps, i. 293; Kramm, iii.
882; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 188; Schlie, 319.
KNYFF, ALFRED DE, born in Brussels in 1819, died in Paris, March
22, 1885. Landscape painter. Lived at Fontainebleau. Medals: 3d
class, 1857, 1859, 1861; L. of Honour, 1861. Works: Souvenir of
Chennevières; Dike of Champigny; Storm in the Campine; Old Willow;
Oak at Fontainebleau; Sunset in the Campine in Belgium (1869);
Moonlight; Scotch Heath; Evening; Villiers sur Mer; Clairvaux Village
(1873); Mouth of the Meuse, Garden of Alfred Stevens, Marsh in
the Campine (1875); Prairies of Lagrange, Forest of Stolen in the
Campine (1877); Old Willow, Meadow (1880); Environs of Bruges (1883);
Prairies of Mortefontaine, Isle of Césambre (1884).--Journal des B.
Arts (1860), 150; Müller, 304.
KNYFF, WOUTER, born at Wesel, of a Haarlem family; living in 1679.
Dutch school. Painted city views and landscapes in the style of Van
Goyen; received into Haarlem Guild in 1641. Pictures very rare. Work:
View of a City on a River, Ghent Museum.--Kramm, iii. 882.
KÖBEL, GEORG, born at Worms in 1807. Landscape painter, pupil of
Dresden and Munich Academies; visited North Italy several times, and
Rome in 1836 and 1838, and was greatly influenced by Markó; returned
to Munich in 1840. Works: Views of Lake Garda; Views in the Ramsau;
San Gregorio in Sabine Mountains; Cloister Andechs in Bavaria;
Passenhofen; Ober-Ammergau; Grotto of Egeria, Schack Gallery, Munich;
Königsee near Berchtesgaden; Porta Nomentana; View of St. Peter’s,
Rome, Carlsruhe Gallery.--Müller, 304.
KOBELL, FERDINAND, born in Mannheim, June 7, 1740, died in Munich,
Feb. 1, 1799. Landscape painter, pupil in Mannheim of Verschaffelt.
Studied from 1768 in Paris, and after his return became court-painter
and professor at the Mannheim Academy. In 1793 he was made director
of the Munich galleries. His landscapes, in the style of Berchem,
are effective and truthful studies from nature. Works: Views in and
near Aschaffenburg (6), Aschaffenburg Gallery; Four Landscapes (one
dated 1785), Schleissheim Gallery; Six do., Carlsruhe Gallery; Three
do. (1784, 1791), Darmstadt Museum; Five do., Stuttgart Museum;
others in Augsburg Gallery.--Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 350; Kugler, kl.
Schriften, iii. 363; Kunstblatt (1858), 280; Lipowsky, 155.
KOBELL, FRANZ, born at Mannheim, Nov. 23, 1749, died in Munich, Jan.
14, 1822. Landscape painter, pupil of Mannheim Academy, went in 1776
to Italy, where he spent nine years, chiefly at Rome, and on his
return in 1785 settled in Munich, and was made court-painter and
honorary member of the Academy; afterwards devoted himself entirely
to drawing, and is said to have left over 10,000 productions of his
pencil. Works: Rocky Landscape with Waterfalls, Bamberg Gallery;
Morning Landscape, Evening Landscape, do. (1778), Cart-Horse and
Figures, Boy feeding Horses, Horse Stable (1780), Mountainous
Landscape, Weimar Museum.--Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 355; Goethe,
Winkelmann, ii.; D. Kunstbl. (1822), 181.
KOBELL, JAN, born at Delftshaven in 1779, died at Amsterdam, Sept.
23, 1814. Animal and landscape painter, son of Hendrik Kobell
(landscape and marine painter, 1751–99, by whom there is a Storm at
Sea (1773) in the Gotha Museum); pupil at Utrecht of Willem Rutgaart
van der Wall, and took Paul Potter for his model; went in 1812 to
Paris, where, in the same year, he won a gold medal, and rapidly
attained popularity. His fellow-artists at Amsterdam honoured him
as their foremost animal painter. In 1813–14 he lived in London
until shortly before his death. Works: Landscape with Cattle, View
in Gelders, Oxen at Pasture (1806), Museum, Amsterdam; Landscape
with Cattle, Horse and Goats by a Barn, Landscape with Peasants
Milking, Museum Fodor, ib.; Oxen and Sheep in a Meadow, Rotterdam
Museum.--Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 354; Immerzeel, ii. 120; Kramm, iii.
885.
KOBELL, JAN, born at Rotterdam, April 13, 1800, died there, Nov. 8,
1838. Animal and landscape painter, son of the engraver Jan Kobell
(1756–1833, a brother of Hendrik), pupil of Rotterdam Academy;
painted at the age of seventeen a Cow Stable, which was placed in the
Hague Museum. His principal work, a life-size Cattle-piece (1830),
was immediately sold in Paris. His sister, Anna (1795–1847), was
also an esteemed artist, whose works are in private collections in
Holland.--Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 355.
KOBELL, WILHELM VON, born in Mannheim, April 6, 1766, died in Munich,
July 15, 1855. Landscape and battle painter, son and pupil of
Ferdinand Kobell, studied afterwards in the Mannheim and Düsseldorf
Galleries, especially after Wouwerman; went to Rome in 1778, became
professor at the Munich Academy in 1808, and visited Vienna and Paris
in 1809–10, to make studies for his battle-pieces, which, containing
many portraits of famous contemporaries, are of historical interest.
Member of Berlin (1791) and Vienna (1808) Academies; Bavarian Civil
Order of Merit in 1815; ennobled in 1833. Works: Conquest of Ulm;
do. of Braunau; Skirmish near Günzburg; Entry of French-Bavarian
Troops into Munich (1807); Third Day of Battle of Hanau (1808), New
Pinakothek, Munich; Skirmish near Polozk (1812); Siege of Breslau;
Surrender of Brieg, Cavalry Skirmish at Arnhofen (1809), Battles of
Eckmühl and Wagram, Banquet Hall, Königsbau, ib.; Siege of Kosel
(1806); Storming of Glatz, Attack of the Russians near Poglawi
(1807); Battle at Bar sur Aube (1814); Cattle (1820), National
Gallery, Berlin; Start for the Chase, Rocky Landscape, Bamberg
Gallery; Cows and Sheep on the Alp, Cattle in a River, Return from
the Chase, Carlsruhe Gallery; Loaded Donkeys on a Height, Horseman
halting by Peasant Boy (1823), Darmstadt Museum; Herd and Shepherd
Boy, Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Horse-pieces (2), Prehn Collection,
ib.; Landscape with Cattle, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck; Peasant Family
returning from Market, Leipsic Museum; Mountain Road with Carter and
Peasant Woman (1822), Lady and Gentleman dismounted on Lake-shore
(1790), Two Horsemen Galloping, Schleissheim Gallery; Hunting Party
(1822), Weimar Museum; Landscape with Ploughing Team; do. with
Freight Wagon, Wiesbaden Gallery; Alpine Shepherdess and Chamois
Hunter Conversing, Similar Subject (1827), Horsemen with Horses and
Dogs near a Lake (1832), Fürstenberg Gallery, Donaueschingen; several
in Mannheim Gallery.--Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 357; Andresen, i. 114;
Söltl.
KOBKE, CHRISTEN SCHJELLERUP, born in Copenhagen, May 26, 1810, died
there, Feb. 7, 1848. Landscape, genre, and portrait painter, pupil
of Copenhagen Academy under Lorentzen and Eckersberg, went to Rome
in 1838, and afterwards to Naples. In 1845–46 he painted frescos in
the Thorvaldsen Museum, and, having painted his reception piece for
the Academy, died of grief over its rejection. Works: Old Sailor
(1832), Summer Morning near Osterbro (1836), From Dosseringen (1839),
Coast View in Capri (1844), Copenhagen Gallery; Bay of Naples
(1843), Leipsic Museum; View in Aarhus Cathedral; Antique Hall at
Charlottenburg; Frederiksborg Castle at Sunset.--Weilbach, 390.
KOCH, JOHANN KARL, born at Hamburg in 1806. History painter, went in
1827 to Munich, and thence visited Rome in 1836. Works: Madonna with
St. John, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Miraculous Cure of Sick Boy, Departure
of St. Bernard from Speyer, Speyer Cathedral. Frescos in Church of
All Saints, Munich; do.: Pope Gregory II. consecrating Boniface
Apostle of the Germans, Consecration of Kloster Fulda, Murder of St.
Maximilian at Cilly, Styria in 284, Baptism of St. Ottilia, Bishop
Wulfram in Friesland rescuing two Youths from the Sea, Murder of St.
Kilian at Würzburg, St. Walpurga saving by her Prayers a Sick Girl,
Return of St. Willibald from Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Baptism
of Wittikind at Attigny, Charlemagne at the Council in Frankfort,
Basilica, ib.--Cotta’s Kunstbl. (1836), 69.
KOCH, JOSEF, born in Munich in 1819, died there, Feb. 17, 1872.
Landscape and animal painter, pupil of Albrecht Adam and of Friedrich
Voltz; tried also portraits under Bernhardt, and studied in Antwerp;
after visits to Paris and Venice, returned to Munich in 1846. Works:
Ruin Kropfberg in the Inn Valley (1849); View near Antwerp (1851);
Animals in the Woods (1852); Grazing Cows (1853); Cattle Drinking
(1855); Frauenchiemsee by Moonlight (1859); View near Feldwies
(1862); Frauen Insel (1864); Morning in the Fields (1856), Pasture
near Antwerp (1858), Harvest (1861), Munich Art Union.--Allgem. d.
Biogr., xvi. 392; Allgem. Zeitg., March 10, 1872, Beilage, 70.
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