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 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.

KNAUS, LUDWIG, born at Wiesbaden, Oct. 10, 1829. Genre painter, pupil 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;