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 Scholar in his Study, Stuttgart Museum; Portraits, Madrid Museum.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 535; Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Burger, Musées, ii. 181; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 393; Quellenschriften, xiv. 148; Stuers, 91.

KONINGSLOO. See Conincxloo.

KONRAD VON SOEST, German school, flourished early part of 15th century. The most prominent master of the school of Soest, which he raised to a standard equal to that of Rhenish art. Works: Great Altarpiece at Nieder-Wildungen (1402); Pictures in Münster and Soest.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 652.

KOOI, WILLEM BARTEL VAN DER, born at Augustïnusga, Friesland, May 13, 1768, died at Leewarden, July 14, 1836. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Frans Swart, Johannes Verrier (1721-97), and Hermanus Wouter Beckkerk (1756-96), at Leewarden; in 1804 studied at Düsseldorf. Member of Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Ghent Academies. Works: Portraits of himself and Dirks Jacobs Ploegsma, The Love Letter (1808), Portrait of Johannes Kobell (1811), Piano-playing Interrupted, Portraits (3, 1804, copies after Van Dyck), Amsterdam Museum.—Immerzeel, ii. 131; Kramm, iii. 904.

KOPISCH, AUGUST, born in Breslau, May 26, 1799, died in Berlin, Feb. 3, 1853. Landscape painter, pupil of the Prague and Vienna Academies; studied in Dresden in 1819-22, and after visiting Rome, Naples, and Breslau, lived in Berlin in 1833-47, when he moved to Potsdam. Works: Falls at Terni; Blue Grotto at Capri; Pontine Marshes at Sunset (1848), National Gallery, Berlin.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 661; Kunstblatt (1853), 70, 159; Rosenberg, Berliner Malerschule, 339.

KÖRLE, PANGRAZ, born in Munich, Oct. 21, 1823, died there, April 23, 1875. Genre painter, pupil of the Munich Academy, then of Bernhardt in portrait painting; went in 1845 to Vienna, where, through study in the galleries and under Waldmüller's influence, he was led to take up genre. Returned in 1848 to Munich, where he soon devoted himself successfully to subjects from the Rococo period. Works: The Broken Vase, Leipsic Museum; Waitress; Applause; Consolation; In the Ancestral Hall; Fettered; Angry Lovers; A Little Misfortune; Ladies making Music; Cavalier and Waitress.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 705; Allgem. Zeitg., May 1, 1875; Kunst-Chronik, x. 507.

KORNEK, ALBERT, born in Breslau, Jan. 11, 1813. History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil of Berlin Academy under Kloeber, and of Düsseldorf Academy under Karl Sohn; returned to Berlin in 1840. Works: Faust and Gretchen; Jacob and Rachel; Holy Family; St. Ann with her Daughter Mary; St. Cecilia; Italian Woman with Children before a Madonna; Latest Despatch.—Müller, 307.

KÖRNER, ERNST, born at Stibbe, West Prussia, Nov. 3, 1846. Landscape and marine painter, pupil of Eschke, later of Steffeck and Gottlieb Biermann; visited the coasts of the North and Baltic Seas, the Hartz Mountains, Northern France (1868), Italy (1869), England and Scotland (1872), then Egypt and the entire East (1873-74), and Italy again in 1876. Medals in Vienna (1873), and Philadelphia (1876). Works: Douarenez in Brittany (1869); After the Storm, Faraglioni in Capri (1872); Grotto in Capri, Golden Horn (1873); Suez (1874), Stettin Museum; Damascus (1874); Mahmudieh Canal (1875); Baalbec on the Lebanon; Sea near Alexandria; Colossus of Memnon at Sunset; Sioot in Upper Egypt in the Twilight.—Müller, 308; Leixner, Mod. K., i. 93; ii. 119; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch, 341.

KOSAREK, ADOLF, born in Heraletz, Bohemia, Jan. 6, 1830, died in Prague, Oct. 30, 1859. Landscape painter, pupil of Prague Academy under Haushofer. Works: View near Parduleitz, Summer Day, In the Woods (1854); View in Middle Bohemia, Ideal Landscape (1855); Wood Landscape