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KOCH (1859); View near Feldwies (18(52); Frauen Insel(18G4); Morning in the Fields (1850), Pasture near Antwerp (1858), Harvest ( 180 1 ), Munich Art Union. Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 392 ; Allgem. Zeitg., March 10, 1872, Bci- lage, 70. KOCH, JOSEF ANTON, born at Ober- giebeln, Tyrol, July 27, 1708, died in Rome, J;m. 12, 1839. Landscape painter, pupil of the Karl- Kchule, Stuttgart; went in 171)1 to Strasburg, and in 1793 to Basic ; in 171)5 travelled on foot to Na- ples, where ho studied from nature, and in the spring following went to Koine, where he was closely allied with Carstens and Wiichtcr, who greatly inllu- enced his artistic development. In 1S12-15 was in Vienna, where he painted his best landscapes ; in 1815 returned to Koine. Aiming at the regeneration of historical landscape painting, as cultivated by Pous- sin, this master stands, together with Johann Christian Keinhardt, midway between Cars- tens and Cornelius. Works: Kape of Hylas, Polyphemus, Nansicaii, Outlook on the Sea, Acis and Galatea, Macbeth, Diana and Ae- tieon, Orestes pursued by Furies, Apollo and Shepherds, Cadmus killing a Dragon, Judgment of Paris, Abraham visited by An- gels, Building of the Ark, Deluge, Boa/ and Kuth, Hercules, Kinaldo and Armida, Anti- gone and Polynices (1800-1812); Landscape! with >St. George (1809), Augsburg Gallery ; Sclimadri Falls in Lauterbrunn Valley (1811), Noah's Sacrifice (1813), Ideal Landscape with Jacob's Return (1810), Leipsic Museum ; Monastery of S. Francesco di Civitella(1814), National Gallery, ]3erlin ; Vigne do Belve- dere di Olevano (1815), After tho Storm, The Sclimadri Brook Falls in Switzerland, New Pinakothek, Munich ; Italian Land- scape, Sclmck Gallery, ib. ; Falls at Tivoli (1818), Darmstadt Museum ; Rape of Hylas, Balaam's Ass, Noah's Sacrifice, Stiidel Gal- lery, Frankfort ; Landscape after Storm, do. with River, Stuttgart Museum ; Night Land- scape with Adoration of the Magi, View in Bernese Oberland, Macbeth and the Witches, Kuth and Boa/., Apollo among the Shep- herds, The Tyrolese Landsturm of Ih09, Scene from Dante's Inferno, Fcrdinandeum, Innsbruck; Macbeth and the Witches (1K29), Views of and near Olevano (2), View on the Tiber near Koine, Basle. Museum : Four Scenes from Dante's Inferno (fresco, IN'JD), Villa Massimi, Koine; Tivoli, (irotta Fer- rata. View near Olevano with Greek Fig- ures, Maria Maggiore, Kape of Hylas, Tyro- lese View (lK29-33>; Diana Uathing (1S33); Replicas of Macbeth, Apollo and Shepherds, Noah's Sacrifice (I.S34-30); Kape of Gany- mede (IS.'iS). Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. :!SS ; Allgem. /eitg. (1.S31I), Ueilage, 51, 3S2 ; Andresen. i. '.I ; Dolmie, K. n. K. des XIX. Jahrh., 2 ; Forster, iv. ">'.( ; Jlaakli, Beitriige, 11 ; Jordan (1885), ii. l'_"_'; I). Kimstblatt (1S55), 37; Kunst-Chronik. i. 'J13 ; Kac- /.ynski, iii. 300 ; Kelier, i. 1(i(i ; Kiegcl, i. 11)7 ; Si-hack. Meine Gciiialdesaminliiiig (1SS4), ; Wur/.baeh, ii. 181 ; /citschr. f. b. K., x. 05. KOCKKKT. Jl'LIl'S, born in Leipsic, June 5, 1S27. History and genre painter, pupil of Prague Academy under Rubens; went in 1S51I to Munich, where he painted some of the frescos in the National Museum, and the greater part of the Battle of Sala- mis, after Kaulbach's composition, in tho Maximilinneum ; likewise of Kaulbach's Otto III. in the ( lermanic Museum at Nu- remberg. Many of his works are owned in England and America. Medal at Tejilit/, 1H71). Works: Haroun al Kaschid, Maxi inilianeuin, Munich ; Solstice Festival in the Alps ; Hay-Harvest on Chiem Ijike ; Dance of Elves ; Hero and Leander. Miiller, 305. KOEBEKGEK. Sec <'li,-r<jh>-r. KOECK, MICHAEL, born at Innsbruck, Aug. 29, 1700, died in Rome in Nov., 1K25. History painter, pupil of Peter Delude, then in Milan ( 1777-80) of Martin Knoller, whence he went as Imperial pensionary to Rome,