in Rome, Jan. 12, 1839. Landscape painter, pupil of the Karlschule,
Stuttgart; went in 1791 to Strasburg, and in 1793 to Basle; in 1795
travelled on foot to Naples, where he studied from nature, and in
the spring following went to Rome, where he was closely allied
with Carstens and Wächter, who greatly influenced his artistic
development. In 1812–15 was in Vienna, where he painted his best
landscapes; in 1815 returned to Rome. Aiming at the regeneration
of historical landscape painting, as cultivated by Poussin, this
master stands, together with Johann Christian Reinhardt, midway
between Carstens and Cornelius. Works: Rape of Hylas, Polyphemus,
Nausicaä, Outlook on the Sea, Acis and Galatea, Macbeth, Diana and
Actæon, Orestes pursued by Furies, Apollo and Shepherds, Cadmus
killing a Dragon, Judgment of Paris, Abraham visited by Angels,
Building of the Ark, Deluge, Boaz and Ruth, Hercules, Rinaldo and
Armida, Antigone and Polynices (1800–1812); Landscape with St. George
(1809), Augsburg Gallery; Schmadri Falls in Lauterbrunn Valley
(1811), Noah’s Sacrifice (1813), Ideal Landscape with Jacob’s Return
(1816), Leipsic Museum; Monastery of S. Francesco di Civitella
(1814), National Gallery, Berlin; Vigne de Belvedere di Olevano
(1815), After the Storm, The Schmadri Brook Falls in Switzerland, New
Pinakothek, Munich; Italian Landscape, Schack Gallery, ib.; Falls
at Tivoli (1818), Darmstadt Museum; Rape of Hylas, Balaam’s Ass,
Noah’s Sacrifice, Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Landscape after Storm,
do. with River, Stuttgart Museum; Night Landscape with Adoration of
the Magi, View in Bernese Oberland, Macbeth and the Witches, Ruth
and Boaz, Apollo among the Shepherds, The Tyrolese Landsturm of
1809, Scene from Dante’s Inferno, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck; Macbeth
and the Witches (1829), Views of and near Olevano (2), View on the
Tiber near Rome, Basle Museum; Four Scenes from Dante’s Inferno
(fresco, 1829), Villa Massimi, Rome; Tivoli, Grotta Ferrata, View
near Olevano with Greek Figures, Maria Maggiore, Rape of Hylas,
Tyrolese View (1829–33); Diana Bathing (1833); Replicas of Macbeth,
Apollo and Shepherds, Noah’s Sacrifice (1834–36); Rape of Ganymede
(1838).--Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 388; Allgem. Zeitg. (1839), Beilage,
51, 382; Andresen, i. 9; Dohme, K. u. K. des XIX. Jahrh., 2; Förster,
iv. 59; Haakh, Beiträge, 11; Jordan (1885), ii. 122; D. Kunstblatt
(1855), 37; Kunst-Chronik, xix. 213; Raczynski, iii. 300; Reber,
i. 166; Riegel, i. 107; Schack, Meine Gemäldesammlung (1884), --;
Wurzbach, xii. 184; Zeitschr. f. b. K., x. 65.
KÖCKERT, JULIUS, born in Leipsic, June 5, 1827. History and genre
painter, pupil of Prague Academy under Rubens; went in 1850 to
Munich, where he painted some of the frescos in the National Museum,
and the greater part of the Battle of Salamis, after Kaulbach’s
composition, in the Maximilianeum; likewise of Kaulbach’s Otto III.
in the Germanic Museum at Nuremberg. Many of his works are owned
in England and America. Medal at Teplitz, 1879. Works: Haroun al
Raschid, Maximilianeum, Munich; Solstice Festival in the Alps;
Hay-Harvest on Chiem Lake; Dance of Elves; Hero and Leander.--Müller,
305.
KOEBERGER. See _Cobergher_.
KOECK, MICHAEL, born at Innsbruck, Aug. 29, 1760, died in Rome in
Nov., 1825. History painter, pupil of Peter Denifle, then in Milan
(1777–86) of Martin Knoller, whence he went as Imperial pensionary
to Rome, where he became a member of the Academy of S. Luca, and in
1814 inspector of the Papal Cabinet of Mosaics. Works: History of
Achilles (in 14 pictures, after which was executed the famous mosaic
table presented by Pope Leo XII. to the King of France), St. Paul
before King Agrippa, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck; Frescos in Municipal
Hall in Rome.--Hormayr’s Archiv. (1826), xvii. 206; Tyrol. K. Lex.
(1830), 131; Wurzbach, xii. 207.
KOEDYCK, NICOLAAS, born in Zaandam in 1681. Dutch school; portrait
and genre painter, after the style of Pieter de Hooch. He was
the last good Dutch painter of the old period, and the favourite
of Peter the Great in Zaandam (Sardam). Works: Portrait of an
Admiral, Amsterdam Museum; Dutch Interior, Brussels Museum;
Man with Wineglass, in Background a Concert, Hermitage, St.
Petersburg.--Immerzeel, ii. 122; Kramm, iii. 893.
KOEHLER, ROBERT, born in Hamburg in 1850. Brought to America in
1854. Genre painter, pupil of the National Academy under Professor
Wilmarth, and of the Art Students’ League under Walter Shirlaw;
afterward studied in Munich under Lœftz and Defregger. Exhibited
first in National Academy in 1878. Works: Her only Support (1883);
Socialist (1885).
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KOEKKOEK, BAREND CORNELIS, born at Middelburg, Zeeland, Oct. 11,
1803, died at Cleves, April 5, 1862. Landscape painter, son and
pupil of Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek (marine painter, 1778–1851, by
whom there is a Sea View, 1847, in the New Pinakothek at Munich),
and student of Amsterdam Academy under Schelfhout and Van Oos;
travelled in Belgium, in the Ardennes, on the Rhine, and Moselle,
visited Paris, afterwards settled at Beck in Gelderland, and in
1841 founded an Academy of Design at Cleves. Member of Rotterdam
and St. Petersburg Academies in 1840. Orders of the Lion (1839)
and of Leopold (1842); L. of Honour; gold medals in Amsterdam
(1840), Paris (1840 and 1843), and The Hague. Works: Wood-Interior
(1840); do. (1843); Oak-Wood in Damp Weather; Landscape on Nether
Rhine; Summer Landscape, Winter Landscape (1843), National Gallery,
Berlin; Landscapes (2, one dated 1853), Ravené Gallery, ib.; do.
(1), Carlsruhe Gallery; do. (2, 1851, 1852), Leipsic Museum; do.
(1838, 1848), Museum, Amsterdam; Landscape with Cattle, City on a
River, Four others, Museum Fodor, ib.; Forest, View in Guelders,
Winter, Rotterdam Museum; View near Cleves (1846), Antwerp Museum;
Marines (2), South Kensington Museum; View on the Moselle, Historical
Society, New York; Dutch Landscape, W. H. Vanderbilt, ib.; Landscape,
J. W. Drexel, ib.; Street in Antwerp, M. K. Jesup, ib.; Landscape,
Market, Church, R. L. Stuart Collection, ib.; Landscape, J. T.
Martin, Brooklyn.--Cotta’s Kunstbl. (1836), 187; (1840), 361; D.
Kunstbl. (1856), 52, 407; Immerzeel, ii. 123; Kramm, iii. 896; vii.
95; Larousse, ix. 1238.
KOEKKOEK, HERMANUS, born at Middelburg, March 13, 1815, died at
Haarlem, Nov. 5, 1882. Landscape and marine painter, son and pupil
of Johannes Hermanus, and brother of preceding. Member of Amsterdam
Academy in 1840. Works: Calm Water with Fishing Smacks (2), River
View, View on Zuyder-Zee, three others, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam;
Agitated Sea, Rotterdam Museum; Sea on Dutch Coast, Kunsthalle,
Hamburg.--Immerzeel, ii. 126.
KOELBL, ALOIS, born in Munich, Jan. 14, 1820, died there, March 28,
1871. Genre painter, pupil of the Munich Academy under Heinrich
von Hess, then of Bernhard in portrait painting; visited Italy in
Michael Echter’s company, and finally devoted himself to small genre
subjects. Works: Clerks in a Sacristy (1852); Walk (1859); Preparing
for a Sunday Walk (1860); Recruit in the Kitchen; Palatine Rudolph
I. and Duke Otto in the Battle of Göllheim (large fresco), National
Museum, Munich.--Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 466; Allgem. Zeitg., April
2, 1871, Beilage, 92.
KOETS, ROELOF, born at Zwolle in 1656, died there in 1725. Dutch
school; portrait painter, pupil of Gerard Terburg; was much employed
by Henry Casimir of Nassau, Stadtholder of Friesland, and afterwards
by William III., and is said to have painted five thousand portraits.
Works: Portrait of Henry Casimir of Nassau, Amsterdam and Antwerp
Museums; Female Portrait, Lille Museum.--Immerzeel, ii. 127.
KOHL, LUDWIG, born in Prague, April 14, 1746, died there, June 18,
1821. History painter, pupil of Vienna Academy, of which he was
made member in 1769, and in 1775 professor at the newly-erected
Model School in Prague. Honorary member of Parma Academy, 1773.
Works: Dido, Cleopatra, St. Aretius (1767); Virginius stabbing his
Daughter (1769); Adoration of the Cross (1770), Prague Gallery;
Joseph’s Dream, Martyrdom of St. Lawrence (1771); Nativity (1773);
Madonna (1775); St. James (1776); St. Barbara (1779); Tarquin and
Lucretia (1780); Death of Lucretia, Solomon in Idolatry (1785);
Trinity (1786); Hannibal’s Oath, Cupid and Psyche, Temple of Hygeia,
Three Graces, Socrates in Prison (1801); Abstinence of Scipio,
Gothic Church, Rittersaal, Gothic Tomb, Schlosskirche in Prague,
Coronation Hall at Prague, Interior of Schlosskirche (1803); St.
Bartholomew (1812); St. Cecilia, Magdalen, Catherine, John Baptist,
Susanna, Joseph in Egypt, Queen Zenobia, Crucifixion, Entombment
(before 1818); Assembly of the Notables in Coronation Hall at
Prague.--Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 428; Wurzbach, Biogr. Lex., xii. 292.
KÖHLER, CHRISTIAN, born at Werben, Altmark, Oct. 13, 1809, died at
Montpellier, Jan., 1861. History and portrait painter, pupil of the
Düsseldorf Academy under Schadow, of whose school he became one of
the foremost artists. Works: Rebekah at the Well (1833); Song of
Miriam (1837), Cologne Museum; Poetry (1838); Semiramis (1843); Hagar
and Ishmael (1844), Düsseldorf Gallery; Finding of Moses; Exposure of
Moses; Triumph of David; Susanna; Romeo and Juliet; Gretchen at the
Spinning-Wheel; Mignon; Germania with the Genius of Liberty (1849),
New York Historical Society; Semiramis (1852), National Gallery,
Berlin; Portrait of Ferd. Hiller.--Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 438;
Wolfg. Müller, Düsseld. K., 34; Wiegmann, 139.
KÖHNHOLZ, JULIUS, born in Bremen, March 7, 1839. Landscape painter,
self-taught in Munich and on travels in Italy, Tyrol, and in the
Austrian and Bavarian Alps. Medal in London (1874). Works: Storm
on Lake Constance (1871); Sirocco Storm on Coast of Genoa (1872);
Evening on Riviera di Ponente, Traun Lake (1873); Storm on Italian
Coast; Lake Garda near Malcesine.--Müller, 305.
KOKEN, EDMUND, born at Hanover, June 4, 1814, died there, Oct. 30,
1872. Landscape painter, studied at the Polytechnic School in Hanover
and then in Munich (1836–44), where he was especially allied with
Kreling and much influenced by Rottmann. Works: Great Wood Landscape,
Cottage on a Pond, Landscape with Figures, Evening Landscape, Street
about Christmas Time, Twelve Cartoons of Landscapes, Provinzial
Museum, Hanover; Several in Royal Gallery, ib.--Allgem. d. Biogr.,
xvi. 455.
KOKEN, GUSTAV, born in Hanover, Aug. 8, 1850. Landscape painter,
pupil in Hanover of his uncle, Edmund Koken and in Weimar of Theodor
Hagen. Works: Winter Landscape (1877); Heath (1878); Evening
Landscape in Thuringia (1879); Wall Paintings in Villa Hügel,
Hanover.--Leixner, D. mod. K., i. 58; ii. 117; Müller, 305.
KOKEN, PAUL, born in Hanover, Jan. 2, 1853. Landscape painter, son
of, and first instructed by, Edmund Koken, then studied in Munich
under the influence of Lier and in Weimar under that of Theodor
Hagen; travelled on the Rhine, in South Germany, and North Italy.
Works: Evening in Autumn; Wood Interior.--Müller, 305.
KOLBE, KARL WILHELM, the younger, born in Berlin, March 7, 1781,
died there, April 8, 1853. History painter, pupil of Berlin Academy
under Chodowiecki, formed himself chiefly after the works of Dutch
masters. Member of Berlin Academy in 1815, professor and senator in
1830. Works: Duke Albrecht Achilles taking an Ensign; Otto the Great
in Battle; Doge and Dogaressa; Battle at Fehrbellin; Last Moments
of Duke Wratislaw of Pomerania; Scenes from Nibelungen Lied, Marble
Palace, Potsdam; Ascension, Schlosskirche, ib.; Mediæval Street,
Knights of Teutonic Order (1824), Marienburg, Charles V. in Flight,
The Dead _Frederick_ Barbarossa at Battle of Antioch, National
Gallery, Berlin (lent to Stettin Museum).--Allgem. d. Biogr.,
xvi. 463; Kunstblatt (1850), 177; (1851), 110; (1853), 142, 380;
Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 25.
KOLITZ, LOUIS, born in Tilsit, April 5, 1845. Military, genre, and
battle painter, pupil of Berlin Academy, then in Düsseldorf of Oswald
Achenbach; influenced by Karl Sohn and Bendemann; took part in the
campaign of 1866 and 1870–71, and became in 1880 director of Cassel
Academy. Medal in Vienna in 1873. Works: Decamping of Lansquenets
(1868); Siege of a City (1869); Wood Border near Orléans, French
Infantry before Metz (1872); Taking of French Battery, Prussians at
Mars la Tour (1873); Battle of Gravelotte, Uhlan-Vedette, Great Army
of Napoleon in Winter; Scene from Skirmish at Vendôme, From Scene
of Action before Metz (1870), National Gallery, Berlin; Funeral
Procession (1884).--Kunst-Chronik, xx. 749; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xviii.
558; Müller, 306; Leixner, Mod. K., i. 51; ii. 88, 114.
KOLLE, CLAUS ANTON, born at Sandby, Laaland, Nov. 25, 1827, died in
Copenhagen, Sept. 2, 1872. Landscape painter, pupil of Copenhagen
Academy; went in 1854 to Dresden and Munich as a scene painter, then
painted historical subjects and portraits before devoting himself
to landscape; went in 1857 to Rome, where he spent several years;
was at Biarritz in 1867 and at Aix-la-Chapelle in 1869. Member of
Copenhagen Academy. Works: Christ at Emmaus (1857); Wood Section on
Himmelbjerget (1860), Copenhagen Gallery; View in the Colosseum,
Temple of Vesta, View on Lake Nemi (1862); Forest of Vinderöd (1866);
Rocky Precipices at Möen (1867); Rain in Oat-Fields (1870); Spring in
the Woods; Coast View at Oen Moen (1871), Copenhagen Gallery.--Sig.
Müller, 212; Weilbach, 394.
KOLLER, RUDOLF, born in Zürich in 1828. Idyl and animal painter,
pupil in Zürich of Ulrich; studied then in Stuttgart, and one year
at the Düsseldorf Academy, finally in Belgium and Paris after the
old masters. In 1850–51 he lived in Munich, and in 1856 settled in
Zürich. Medal, Paris, 2d class, 1878. Works: Farming in Switzerland
(1869); Watering Place, Storm in the Mountains (1870); Cows in
Cabbage Field; Herd in the Alps, Musée Rath, Geneva; Lake of
Wallenstädt; Idyl from Berner Oberland, Saint Gall Museum; Mid-day
Rest, Evening Landscapes (2), Alp in Engelberg Valley, White Horse
in Stable, Zürich Gallery; Stag-Hunt; Cow and Calf run astray in the
Mountains (1856), Berne Museum; Cows in Fog; Autumn Evening; Cows
with Maid; Meeting (1875); After Sunset; Four Oxen Ploughing, Dresden
Museum; Siesta, Morning on the Alp (1885).--D. Kunstbl. (1853), 411;
(1857), 227; Kunst-Chronik; Müller, 306; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xx. 115.
KOLLER, WILHELM, born in Vienna in 1829, died in Germany in 1885.
Historical genre painter, pupil of Vienna and Düsseldorf (1851–55)
Academies; lived in 1856–59 in Antwerp, then settled in Brussels.
A few years ago he removed to Paris, but became reduced in his
circumstances and went to Germany, where he is said to have succumbed
to privations. Works: Place of Refuge; Emigrants; Scenes from
Peasants’ War; Marriage of Archduke Ferdinand with Philippine Welser;
Tilly’s Retreat after Battle of Magdeburg; Baptism of Luther; Faust
and Gretchen in the Garden; Sunday Morning; Dürer receiving Message
from Margaret of Parma; Wedding Procession of Archduke Maximilian
in Ghent; Philippine Welser interceding for her Husband; Charles V.
at Fugger’s; Emperor Maximilian at Dürer’s; Departure for the War;
Almsgiving; Hugo van der Goes painting Portrait of the Infanta Marie
de Bourgogne, New York Museum.--Art Journal (1867), 9; Journal des B.
Arts (1860), 144; Kunst-Chronik, xx. 605.
KOLLOCK, MARY, born in Norfolk, Va., in 1840. Landscape painter,
studied at the Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, under Robert
Wylie, and in New York with J. B. Bristol and A. H. Wyant. Studio in
New York; exhibits at the National Academy. Works: Midsummer in the
Mountains (1876); On the Road to Mount Marcy (1877); Evening Walk
(1878); Coming Home (1879); Two-hundred-and-twenty-year-old House
in East Hampton (1880); Empty Chair (1881); On Rondout Creek, Blind
Fiddler (1882); Brook (1883); Gathering Wild Flowers (1884).
KOMPE (Compe), JAN TEN, born at Amsterdam, Feb. 14, 1713, died there
in 1761. Dutch school; landscape and city view painter, pupil of
Dirk Dalens, the younger (1688–1753), but took Jan van der Heyden
and Gerrit Berkheyde for his models. Works: Market in Haarlem,
Copenhagen Gallery; Country House near Antwerp (1755), Street in
Dutch City, Gotha Museum; Landscape with Sheep (1757), Kunsthalle,
Hamburg; View of Dutch Gracht (1740), Moat of Dutch City, Schwerin
Gallery.--Immerzeel, i. 144; Kramm, i. 258; Scheltema, Aemstels
Oudh., v. 70.
KÖNIG, (FRANZ) NIKOLAUS, born in Berne, April 5, 1760, died March
27, 1832. Landscape painter, pupil of Freudenberger at Berne. Lived
at Interlaken in 1798–1800. Works: The Staubbach (1804), Berne
Museum; Interlaken and Unterseen.--Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 505;
Cotta’s Kunstblatt (1822), 344; (1832), 212; Goethe, Ueber Kunst und
Alterthum, ii. 132.
KÖNIG, GUSTAV, born in Coburg, April 2, 1808, died in Erlangen,
April 30, 1869. History painter, pupil of the Nuremberg Art School
in 1830–32, then of the Munich Academy under Schnorr. Painted seven
scenes from Saxon history for the Duke of Coburg, and thenceforth
took his subjects principally from the Reformation period, as he is
also called Luther-König. Works: Seven Scenes from Reformation in
Saxony (1837, seq.); Elector John Frederic at Chess; Nathan’s Sermon
before David (1861), New Pinakothek, Munich; Luther and Zwingli at
Marburg (1862).--Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 512; Dioskuren (1870), 177;
Förster, v. 104; Reber, ii. 53; Regnet, i. 343; Ebrard, Gust. König,
sein Leben u. s. Kunst (Erlangen, 1870).
KÖNIG, JOHANN, flourished at Augsburg about 1600. German school,
history painter; executed for the town hall at Augsburg a Last
Judgment, the Story of Ananias and Sapphira, and three Allegories on
the Manner of Ruling. He often painted on agate, marble, and other
stones, _e.g._, the Last Judgment and the Passage of the Israelites
through the Red Sea, painted on both sides of an agate, in the
University Library at Upsala. In the Vienna Museum are four pictures
of the Seasons, represented by children playing, harvesting, etc.
If identical with the painter of a series of four landscapes in the
Sienna Academy, and with Jacob König, by whom are four landscapes
with figures in the Gallery at Wiesbaden, and several in the Städel
Gallery at Frankfort, he was in Rome in 1613, and there possibly a
pupil of Elsheimer, of whose well-known picture Contento he made a
copy in 1617, which is in the royal palace at Munich. By his son,
Niklaes, who flourished at Nuremberg about 1600 (?), there is a Rough
Sea in the Dresden Gallery.--Bode, Studien, 317; Nagler, vii. 117.
KÖNIGGRÄTZ, BATTLE OF, Georg _Bleibtreu_, National Gallery, Berlin;
canvas, H. 4 ft. 11 in. × 9 ft. 11 in. On a small elevation in centre
King William on a black horse with his suite, Bismarck, Moltke, Roon,
etc., watching the battle; in foreground, a detachment of captured
Austrians coming towards the spectator; from the right the body-guard
galloping forward; in the middle-ground a cavalry combat; on the
height to the left the forest of Dub, and at the right the village of
Problus on fire.--Jordan (1885), i. 16.
KÖNIGSWIESER, HEINRICH, flourished second half of 16th century.
German school; pupil of Cranach, the younger, in Wittenberg, whither
he was sent in 1552 by Duke Albert of Prussia. Work: Christ on Mount
of Olives, Königsberg Cathedral.--W. & W., ii. 433.
KONINCK, DAVID DE. See _Coninck_.
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KONINCK (Koning), PHILIP DE, born at Amsterdam, Nov. 5, 1619, died
there, buried Oct. 4, 1688. Dutch school. Landscape, history, and
portrait painter, pupil of Rembrandt. Lingelbach and Dirk van Bergen
painted the figures in some of his landscapes, which generally
represent extensive views with surprising truth to nature and grand
atmospheric effect. Works: Landscapes (2), National Gallery, London;
Landscape (long attributed to Rembrandt), Lord Overstone, ib.; Mouth
of a Dutch River, Hague Museum; Landscape (1676), Entrance to a
Forest, Amsterdam Museum; Landscape (1664), Rotterdam Museum; View
near Scheveningen, Museum, Brussels; Landscape, Arenberg Gallery,
ib.; do. (1664), Rotterdam Museum; Daughter of Jairus, Surgical
Operation (1650), Old Woman with a Pot, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Merry
Skippers at the Inn (1646), Schwerin Gallery; Portrait of the Poet
Joost van Vondel (1656 and 1662).--Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 535; Ch.
Blanc, École hollandaise; Burger, Musées, i. 53; ii. 181; Immerzeel,
ii. 128; Kramm, iii. 901; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 387; Stuers, 65.
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KONINCK (Koning), SALOMON, born at Amsterdam in 1609, died there
after 1663. Dutch school. History, genre, and portrait painter,
pupil of David Colyns and Nicolaas Moyaert, and later a follower
of Rembrandt. Became member of the Painter’s Guild at Amsterdam in
1630. Works: Young Man Reading (1630), Bridgewater Gallery, London;
Joseph explaining Pharaoh’s Dream (attributed to Rembrandt), Lord
Scarsdale, Keddleston Hall; The Goldweigher (1654), Rotterdam
Museum; St. Jerome, Basle Museum; Portrait of a Rabbi, Calling of
St. Matthew (1646); Crœsus and Solon, Berlin Museum; Old Philosopher
(1649), Brunswick Museum; Lady at Toilet, Turkish Warrior, Copenhagen
Gallery; Hermit Reading (1643), Old Man with Turban, Old Bearded Man
with Telescope, Dresden Museum; David playing before Saul, Städel
Gallery, Frankfort; Lady’s Portrait, Gotha Museum; Christ in the
Temple, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Parable of the Vineyard, Old Man, do.
in Profile, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Male Portrait, Schleissheim
Gallery; Saul and David, Joseph explaining Pharaoh’s Dreams (1655),
Vision of Zachariah, Old Man’s Portrait, Schwerin Gallery; Scholar
in his Study, Stuttgart Museum; Portraits, Madrid Museum.--Allgem. d.
Biogr., xvi. 535; Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Burger, Musées, ii.
181; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 393; Quellenschriften, xiv. 148; Stuers, 91.
KONINGSLOO. See _Conincxloo_.
KONRAD VON SOEST, German school, flourished early part of 15th
century. The most prominent master of the school of Soest, which
he raised to a standard equal to that of Rhenish art. Works: Great
Altarpiece at Nieder-Wildungen (1402); Pictures in Münster and
Soest.--Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 652.
KOOI, WILLEM BARTEL VAN DER, born at Augustïnusga, Friesland, May
13, 1768, died at Leewarden, July 14, 1836. Genre and portrait
painter, pupil of Frans Swart, Johannes Verrier (1721–97), and
Hermanus Wouter Beckkerk (1756–96), at Leewarden; in 1804 studied
at Düsseldorf. Member of Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Ghent Academies.
Works: Portraits of himself and Dirks Jacobs Ploegsma, The Love
Letter (1808), Portrait of Johannes Kobell (1811), Piano-playing
Interrupted, Portraits (3, 1804, copies after Van Dyck), Amsterdam
Museum.--Immerzeel, ii. 131; Kramm, iii. 904.
KOPISCH, AUGUST, born in Breslau, May 26, 1799, died in Berlin, Feb.
3, 1853. Landscape painter, pupil of the Prague and Vienna Academies;
studied in Dresden in 1819–22, and after visiting Rome, Naples, and
Breslau, lived in Berlin in 1833–47, when he moved to Potsdam. Works:
Falls at Terni; Blue Grotto at Capri; Pontine Marshes at Sunset
(1848), National Gallery, Berlin.--Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 661;
Kunstblatt (1853), 70, 159; Rosenberg, Berliner Malerschule, 339.
KÖRLE, PANGRAZ, born in Munich, Oct. 21, 1823, died there, April 23,
1875. Genre painter, pupil of the Munich Academy, then of Bernhardt
in portrait painting; went in 1845 to Vienna, where, through study
in the galleries and under Waldmüller’s influence, he was led to
take up genre. Returned in 1848 to Munich, where he soon devoted
himself successfully to subjects from the Rococo period. Works: The
Broken Vase, Leipsic Museum; Waitress; Applause; Consolation; In the
Ancestral Hall; Fettered; Angry Lovers; A Little Misfortune; Ladies
making Music; Cavalier and Waitress.--Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 705;
Allgem. Zeitg., May 1, 1875; Kunst-Chronik, x. 507.
KORNEK, ALBERT, born in Breslau, Jan. 11, 1813. History, genre,
and portrait painter, pupil of Berlin Academy under Kloeber, and
of Düsseldorf Academy under Karl Sohn; returned to Berlin in 1840.
Works: Faust and Gretchen; Jacob and Rachel; Holy Family; St. Ann
with her Daughter Mary; St. Cecilia; Italian Woman with Children
before a Madonna; Latest Despatch.--Müller, 307.