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Philip Foltz and Ramberg; travelled in Suabia and the Tyrol, and spent the winter of 1869-70 in Nice. Works: Grandmother's Admonition, The Foundling (1867); Birthday (1868); Dice-Players (1873); Good-Morning, Papa! (1874); Leisure Hour; Noon-Day Rest; Country Life (1878); Improvised Bowling-Alley, Preparations for Procession.—Müller, 290.


KAMECKE, OTTO (WERNER HENNING) VON, born at Stolp, Pomerania, in 1829. Landscape painter, studied first from nature at Rome in 1860-62, then at the Weimar Art School under Böcklin and Michaelis; next under Kalckreuth, and afterwards visited the Tyrol, Switzerland, and North Italy. Lives in Berlin. Works: Valley near Berchtesgaden; Königsee; Vierwaldstätter Lake; The Wetterhorn; Italian Landscape; Thuringian Landscape; Wengern-Scheideck; Campagna; Glacier Landscape; View in Lauterbrunn Valley; View from Bernina Pass; Glacier des Bois; View on Lake Garda; Rosegg Glacier; Gosau Lake; St. Gotthard Road, National Gallery, Berlin; View on St. Gotthard, Dresden Museum.—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 487; Müller, 291.


KANDLER, WILHELM, born at Kratzau, Bohemia, Feb. 28, 1816. History painter, pupil of Prague Academy under Kadlik, then under Ruben; went to Rome in 1843, and returned in 1850. Works: Duke Spitignew's Judgment; Four Scenes from Life of Christ (1840); St. George; Sermon of Jonah; Discovery of Springs at Carlsbad (1849); Jacques de Molay's Defence of the Knights Templars; Wall-Paintings in Castle Chapel at Reichstadt; Frescos in Imperial Chapel at Prague.—Cotta's Kunstbl. (1846), 123; D. Kunstbl. (1850), 248; Müller, 291; Wurzbach, x. 429.


KANNENGIESSER, GEORG, born at Neustrelitz, Mecklenburg, in 1814. History painter, pupil of Berlin Academy under Ternite and Blechen, then in 1834-41 of Düsseldorf Academy under Sohn; was in 1842 at Munich, and then travelled three years in Italy, Sicily, and Greece. After his return he was made professor in 1846, and instructor of the Grand Duchess. Was in Rome and Paris in 1854-55. Works: Thisbe; Rinaldo and Armida; Death of Cleopatra; Sleeping Bacchante; View of Athens; Coliseum in Rome; View of Palermo; Queen Louise of Prussia; Entombment; Ecce Homo; Portraits of Grand Ducal Family of Mecklenburg.—Christl. Kunstbl. (1869); Müller, 291.


KANOLDT, EDMUND (FRIEDRICH), born at Grossrudestedt, Saxe-Weimar, March 13, 1845. Landscape painter, pupil of Weimar Art-School under Preller; went in 1869 to Rome, where he was influenced by Franz Dreber; settled in Carlsruhe, where Ferdinand Keller greatly influenced his further development. Works: Giant's Grave in Rügen; Canossa; The Kyffhäuser; Ulysses hunting Goats, Weimar Museum; Iphigenia by the Sea; Eight Pictures from Myth of Cupid and Psyche; Cassandra and Antigone; Sabine Landscape (1873); Sappho (1880); Iphigenia in Tauris (1881); Hero in a Landscape (1884).—Müller, 292; Leixner, Mod. K., ii. 116; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xxi. 490; Illustr. Zeitg. (1881), i. 130; ii. 549; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xx. 76.


KAPELLER, JOSEF ANTON, born at Imst, Tyrol, Feb. 22, 1761, died by suicide at Gratz, Styria, in 1806. History and portrait painter, son of a painter; pupil of Johann Jacob Zeiler, at Reute, then of Vienna Academy under Füger and Maurer, where he won the first prize in 1786; lived at Warsaw in 1787-94 as instructor in the family of Prince Jablonowski, and after his return successively at Imst, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Vienna and Gratz. Painted also excellent miniatures. Works: Sleeping Faun (1786); Portrait of Kosciuszko (about 1790); do. of Field-Marshal Laudon; Portrait of Wallenstein (copy after Van Dyck), Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck.—Nagler, vi. 529; Wurzbach, x. 448.


KAPPES, ALFRED, born in New York in 1850. Genre painter, self-taught. Ex-