Academy. Studied nature in the Tyrol and the Bavarian Alps. Works: The Hintersee near Berchtesgaden (1835-40), Königsberg Museum; View in Bavarian Alps (1842), New Pinakothek, Munich; Königsee; Hintersee and Obersee near Berchtesgaden (1858); At the Kochelsee, Darmstadt Museum; View at the Untersberg, Schack Gallery, Munich.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xv. 6; Kunstbl. (1851), 80; (1857), 218; Kunst-Chronik, i. 3; Vincenz Müller, Handbuch f. München (1845), 144.
KAISER, FRIEDRICH, born at Lörrach,
Baden, Jan. 21, 1815. History and battle
painter, was first a lithographer; went to
Paris, where Horace Vernet's battle-pieces
inspired him to take up the same line of
art; studied several years in Munich, in
1848 went to Carlsruhe, and in 1850 settled
in Berlin. Painted also biblical scenes of
elevated composition and fine colouring.
Works: Storming of Corfù; Surprise of
Conradin at Tagliacozzo (1863); Wounding
of Prince Frederic Charles at Wiesenthal;
Bivouac before Düppel (1864); Attack of
Prussian Hussars; Emperor William inspecting
Artillery-position before Paris
(1879); Christ and the Samaritan Woman;
Margrave Louis of Baden's Victory over the
Turks at Szlankament in 1691, Carlsruhe
Gallery.—Dioskuren (1866); Christl. Kunstbl.
(1867); Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 485; Müller,
289; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 293.
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KALCKREUTH, STANISLAUS VON,
Count, born at Kozmin,
Posen, Dec. 24, 1821.
Landscape painter, pupil
in Potsdam of Gustav
Wegener, then in Berlin
of Krause, and in 1846-47
of Düsseldorf Academy
under Schirmer, in
whose studio he worked
until the latter's removal
to Carlsruhe in 1854.
His first pictures were so noteworthy that
the King of Prussia nominated him professor.
Was director of the newly founded
Art School at Weimar in 1860-76; visited
Styria, Tyrol, Switzerland, Savoy, Italy, and
the Pyrenees, and since 1876 has lived at
Kreuznach. Member of Berlin, Amsterdam
(1852), and Rotterdam Academies. Medals,
Berlin (2, 1868), Vienna (1873), and Bordeaux.
Works: Monastery of San Giovanni
on Lake Como, Obersee near Berchtesgaden,
Hintersee, View on the Aar, Morning Landscape
in Tyrol (1849-52); Lac de Gaube
(1858), Königsberg Museum; The Wetterhorn,
Stettin Museum; Canigai Valley
(1856), National Gallery, Berlin; Castle of
the Holy Grail, View of Pau (1863); View
near Turin; Lac d'Oo and Monastery Las
Casas; View near Bonn; Rhine Valley near
Ragatz; Lake of Wallenstädt; Rocky Landscape
(1869); Rosenlaui Glacier (1878), National
Gallery, Berlin; Views in Illier Valley;
Series of 25 Landscapes, Orangery
near Potsdam. His son Leopold is a clever
genre and landscape painter, and, since 1885,
professor at the Art School in Weimar.
Among his works are: Funeral at Dachau
(1883); Children at Tombstone of a Saint
(1884).—Jordan (1885), ii. 111; Kunstblatt
(1851), 126; (1855), 191; (1856), 408; (1858),
57; Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 545; Müller, 290.
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KALF, WILLEM, born in Amsterdam
before 1630,
died there,
July 31, 1693.
Dutch school;
still-life painter,
pupil of
Hendrik Pot;
painted fruits,
flowers, and
vessels most
truthfully and
with fine colouring. Excellent arrangement
of subjects is pleasing; great success in rendering
the lustre of metal, crystal, and
mother-of-pearl. Occasionally painted genre
subjects, especially kitchen scenes. Works:
Hut Interior, Still Life, Louvre; Costly Vessels,
Amsterdam Museum; Interior with
Peasants, Rotterdam Museum; Still Life,
