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 *—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,