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 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 Sun-*set; 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.