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 Academy. Studied nature in the Tyrol and the Bavarian Alps. Works: The Hintersee near Berchtesgaden (1835-40), Königsberg Museum; View in Bavarian Alps (1842), New Pinakothek, Munich; Königsee; Hintersee and Obersee near Berchtesgaden (1858); At the Kochelsee, Darmstadt Museum; View at the Untersberg, Schack Gallery, Munich.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xv. 6; Kunstbl. (1851), 80; (1857), 218; Kunst-Chronik, i. 3; Vincenz Müller, Handbuch f. München (1845), 144.

KAISER, FRIEDRICH, born at Lörrach, Baden, Jan. 21, 1815. History and battle painter, was first a lithographer; went to Paris, where Horace Vernet's battle-pieces inspired him to take up the same line of art; studied several years in Munich, in 1848 went to Carlsruhe, and in 1850 settled in Berlin. Painted also biblical scenes of elevated composition and fine colouring. Works: Storming of Corfù; Surprise of Conradin at Tagliacozzo (1863); Wounding of Prince Frederic Charles at Wiesenthal; Bivouac before Düppel (1864); Attack of Prussian Hussars; Emperor William inspecting Artillery-position before Paris (1879); Christ and the Samaritan Woman; Margrave Louis of Baden's Victory over the Turks at Szlankament in 1691, Carlsruhe Gallery.—Dioskuren (1866); Christl. Kunstbl. (1867); Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 485; Müller, 289; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 293.

KALCKREUTH, STANISLAUS VON, Count, born at Kozmin, Posen, Dec. 24, 1821. Landscape painter, pupil in Potsdam of Gustav Wegener, then in Berlin of Krause, and in 1846-47 of Düsseldorf Academy under Schirmer, in whose studio he worked until the latter's removal to Carlsruhe in 1854. His first pictures were so noteworthy that the King of Prussia nominated him professor. Was director of the newly founded Art School at Weimar in 1860-76; visited Styria, Tyrol, Switzerland, Savoy, Italy, and the Pyrenees, and since 1876 has lived at Kreuznach. Member of Berlin, Amsterdam (1852), and Rotterdam Academies. Medals, Berlin (2, 1868), Vienna (1873), and Bordeaux. Works: Monastery of San Giovanni on Lake Como, Obersee near Berchtesgaden, Hintersee, View on the Aar, Morning Landscape in Tyrol (1849-52); Lac de Gaube (1858), Königsberg Museum; The Wetterhorn, Stettin Museum; Canigai Valley (1856), National Gallery, Berlin; Castle of the Holy Grail, View of Pau (1863); View near Turin; Lac d'Oo and Monastery Las Casas; View near Bonn; Rhine Valley near Ragatz; Lake of Wallenstädt; Rocky Landscape (1869); Rosenlaui Glacier (1878), National Gallery, Berlin; Views in Illier Valley; Series of 25 Landscapes, Orangery near Potsdam. His son Leopold is a clever genre and landscape painter, and, since 1885, professor at the Art School in Weimar. Among his works are: Funeral at Dachau (1883);	Children at Tombstone of a Saint (1884).—Jordan	(1885), ii. 111; Kunstblatt (1851), 126; (1855), 191; (1856), 408; (1858), 57; Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 545; Müller, 290.

KALF, WILLEM, born in Amsterdam before 1630, died there, July 31, 1693. Dutch school; still-life painter, pupil of Hendrik Pot; painted fruits, flowers, and vessels most truthfully and with fine colouring. Excellent arrangement of subjects is pleasing; great success in rendering the lustre of metal, crystal, and mother-of-pearl. Occasionally painted genre subjects, especially kitchen scenes. Works: Hut Interior, Still Life, Louvre; Costly Vessels, Amsterdam Museum; Interior with Peasants, Rotterdam Museum; Still Life,