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 self-taught on travels through Tyrol and in Italy, where he studied in 1831-37; during that period he also visited Dalmatia, Slavonia, and Croatia, and settled in Dresden in 1843; visited Scotland in 1851, Portugal in 1859, Egypt in 1867, and frequented the Alps. Honorary member of Dresden Academy in 1847, professor in 1859. Bavarian Order of Michael, Prussian Order of Red Eagle. Works: Hungarian Steppe; Cattaro; View from Montenegro into Albania; Lake of Scutari; Castle Cintra; Lisbon; Storm on Coast of Palermo; Views on Scotch Coast; View near Arisaig, Scotland, Dresden Gallery; Sunset in the Hebrides, Swiss Landscape, Leipsic Museum.—Illustr. Zeitg. (1869), ii. 391; Kaulen, 29; Müller, 313.

KUNST, CORNELIS CORNELISZEN, born in Leyden in 1493, died in Bruges in 1544. Dutch school. History and portrait painter, son and pupil of Cornelis Engelbrechtsen; was one of the best artists of his native city; moved afterwards to Bruges, where his works are highly esteemed. Had a brother Lucas, surnamed Kok (Cook), who, also a pupil of his father, went to England. Works: Christ bearing the Cross, Sorrow of Mary, Descent from the Cross (all in Leyden).—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 388; Immerzeel, ii. 143; Kramm, iii. 921; Van Mander, 1. 99.

KUNTZ, GUSTAV, born at Wildenfels, Saxony, Feb. 17, 1843, died in Rome, April 2, 1879. Genre painter, pupil in Vienna of Angeli, who in 1871 met him in Rome, where Kuntz worked as a sculptor; lived in Weimar in 1871-72, then visited England, France, Holland, and Belgium; lived from 1873 in Vienna, and in 1877 settled in Rome. Medal in Philadelphia in 1876. Works: Nun in Contemplation (1876), Roman Pilgrim (1878), do. Praying, Dresden Museum; Document Thief; Denied Absolution; The Widow's Mite; Italian Pilgrims (1877), National Gallery, Berlin.—Jordan (1885), ii. 132; Kunst-Chronik, xiv. 525; Leixner, Mod. K., ii. 66.

KUNTZ, KARL, born in Mannheim, July 28, 1770, died in Carlsruhe, Sept. 8, 1830. Landscape and animal painter, pupil of Mannheim Academy under Rönger and Quaglio; went in 1790 to Switzerland and Milan, and in 1805 became court-painter, and in 1829 director of the Gallery in Carlsruhe. Works: Pasture (1824), National Gallery, Berlin; Landscape, Cattle Pieces (2), Cattle Market, Carlsruhe Gallery; Landscapes with Cattle (3, 1802, 1815), Peasants Embarking on Lake, New Pinakothek, Munich; others in Mannheim Gallery, and in Paris and St. Petersburg. His sons and pupils, Rudolf (1798-1848, Baden court-painter in 1830) and Ludwig (born in 1810), were both able artists in the same line. By Rudolf there are in the Carlsruhe Gallery: View of Stutensee Hunting Lodge, Animal Piece, Horses Watering, Horse Race near Iffezheim.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 397; Brockhaus, x. 674; Cotta's Kunstbl. (1830), 340.

KUPELWIESER, LEOPOLD, born at Piesting, Nether Austria, Oct. 17, 1796, died in Vienna, Nov. 17, 1862. History painter, pupil of the Vienna Academy; studied at Dresden in 1816-18, and after having established his reputation by a life-size portrait of the Emperor Francis, visited Italy in 1824-25. Especially attracted by the works of Fra Angelico, he devoted himself entirely to religious art, and after his return home executed numerous altarpieces for churches in Austria, Bohemia, and Hungary, besides fresco paintings in Viennese churches and official buildings. He co-operated with Führich in promoting religious art tendencies. From 1830 corrector, and from 1837 professor, at the Academy; member of most of the European Academies, and received many decorations and honours. Works: Crucifixion; Ascension; Austria surrounded by Symbolical Figures; Assumption; Birth of Mary; Moses praying for Victory (1836), Vienna Museum; Prophecy to the Three Youths Adalbero, Altmann, and Gebhard (1856), New Pinakothek, Munich; Annunci