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 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