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 *ation; frescos in Lerchenfeld Church, Vienna.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 405; Dioskuren (1862), 384; Kunstbl. (1854), 464; (1856), 174; (1857), 199; Wurzbach, xiii. 392; Raczynski, ii. 553.

KUPETZKY (Kópecky), JOHANN, born at Poesing, Upper Hungary, in 1667, died in Nuremberg, June 4, 1740. German school. History and portrait painter, pupil of the Swiss painter Klaus in Vienna, whence he went to Venice and Rome to study Correggio, Guido, and Titian. After living in Italy twenty-two years, he went upon invitation of Prince Adam von Liechtenstein to Vienna, where he won the favour of Joseph I., Charles VI., and of Prince Eugene of Savoy, and became popular as a portrait painter. Later he went to Nuremberg. He was a capital draughtsman, and a powerful though often heavy colourist. Works: Portrait of Peter the Great, Artist and his Son, Himself at the Easel, King Augustus of Poland, A Hungarian Magnate, Two Female Portraits, Male Portrait, Two Head Studies, Brunswick Museum; Portrait of Himself, Darmstadt and Dresden Museums; do., and Portrait of Rákoczy, Gotha Museum; Male Portrait (of himself?), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Old Woman with Letter, Leipsic Museum; Lady's Portrait, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Artist's Portrait, Milan Academy; do. (2), and Portrait of Rákoczy, A Boy, and Male Portraits (4), Germanic Museum, Nuremberg; Dutch Genre Pieces (2), Artist and his Son, Artist's Wife, Count Zinzendorf, Man in Armour, Town-hall, ib.; Bishop Baron von Hutten, Artist and his Son, Schleissheim Gallery; St. Peter, Artist's Portrait, Schwerin Gallery; Portraits of himself and of his wife, Stuttgart Museum; A Lady with her Boy, Artist before Easel (1706), Museum, Vienna; Mythological Subjects, Saints, and Portraits, Liechtenstein Gallery and in other private galleries, ib.; Portraits (10-12), National Museum, Pesth; Prince Eugene of Savoy, Versailles Museum.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 408; Dlabacz, ii. 160; Füssli, Leben des Geo. Phil. Rugendas u. des Joh. Kupeczky (Zürich, 1758); Kugler (Crowe), ii. 552; Lipowsky, i. 167, 193; Wurzbach, xiii. 396.

KUPPELMAYER, RUDOLF, born at Kaufbeuren in 1843. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Munich Academy, where he took Kaulbach for his model; studied then for two years in Nuremberg under Kreling, lived in Italy, especially at Venice, in 1869-72, and settled in Munich. Medals in Vienna (1873) and London (1874); Order of Michael (1876). Works: Portrait (1872); Italian Concert (1873); Drunken Soldiers in Thirty Years' War; After the Bath (1876); Farewell of Duke Albrecht IV. (1879).—Müller, 314.

KURELLA, LUDOVIK VON, born in Warsaw, Aug. 13, 1836. History painter, pupil of Warsaw Academy, studied then in Dresden under Schnorr and in Munich under Kaulbach; went to Rome and visited Paris, Brussels, Antwerp, and Berlin, where he was influenced by Cornelius; returned to Munich, and studied at the Academy under Ramberg. Most of his works are bought in England. Works: Death of Moses; Ferry in Poland; Goldfish; Switezianka; Polish Market (1875).—Müller, 314.

KURTZ, KARL, born in Stuttgart in 1817. Portrait and genre painter, pupil of Stuttgart Art School and of Vienna Academy under Danhauser; visited Hungary, Rome, Venice, Milan, and Florence (1842-44), also France and Belgium; lived in Munich in 1844-45, in Dresden and Berlin in 1846, then visited England and Holland, afterwards repeatedly France and Italy, and in 1848 became professor at the Polytechnic in Stuttgart. Gold medal, 1853; medal, 1859; Order of Frederic. Work: Portrait of King William I. (1853).—Müller, 314.

KURZBAUER, EDUARD, born in Vienna, May 2, 1840, died in Munich, Jan. 13, 1879. Genre painter, pupil of the Vienna Academy in 1857-61, and in Munich of Pi