(1875); May-Day (1879), Dresden Gallery; Portrait of Johanna Lahmeyer (1876); Female Portrait (1877); Summer Pleasure; Lute-Players, Vienna Museum.—Illustr. Zeitg. (1876), ii. 4; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 492; Müller, 294; Leixner, Mod. K., i. 107; Illustr. Zeitg. (1876), ii. 4, 561; (1883), i. 79; ii. 293; Zeitsch., xiv. 32; xx. 75.
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KAULBACH, HERMANN, born in Munich,
July 26, 1846. Historical
genre painter,
son of Wilhelm Kaulbach,
pupil of Piloty,
then went to Italy. Medal
in Vienna (1873).
Honorary member of
Munich Academy, 1885.
Works: Monk Painting,
Germanic Museum, Nuremberg;
Louis XI.
and his Barber at Peronne (1869); Children's
Confession (1871); Hansel and Gretel with
the Witch (1872); Mozart's last Moments
(1873); From the Holy Land (1874); Sebastian
Bach at Frederic the Great's (1875); Voltaire
at Paris (1876); With the Tower-Falcons
(1879); Messalina (1882).—Müller, 294;
Meyer, Conv. Lex., xviii. 538; Leixner, Mod.
K., ii. 19; Illustr. Zeitg. (1883), ii. 293.
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KAULBACH, WILHELM VON, born at
Arolsen, Oct. 15,
1805, died in Munich,
April 7, 1874.
History painter,
pupil of Düsseldorf
Academy under
Cornelius, whom
he followed in 1825
to Munich and continued
his studies
in the Academy
there. Though occupied from 1826 with
several great decorative compositions in the
Palace, the Odéon, and the Hofgarten, Munich,
he did not really learn to paint until
he went to Rome in 1839. In 1847 he was
called to Berlin to decorate the Treppenhaus
(Staircase Hall) of the New Museum,
which occupied him many years; in 1849
appointed director of the Munich Academy.
He was an officer of the L. of Honour, Grand
Commander of St. Michael, Commander of
the Order of Francis Joseph, corresponding
member of the Institute of France, and member
of several academies. Kaulbach made
many designs for book illustrations, among
them those for Reynard the Fox (1846),
Goethe's Faust, The Gospels, Dance of
Death, the works of Shakespeare and Schiller,
and Wagner's operas. Despite his mannerisms,
he was one of the greatest modern
German painters, and with his master Cornelius
represents the new Munich school
during the reign of King Louis of Bavaria.
Works: Apollo and the Muses (1826), Odéon,
Munich; Symbolical figures of four
Bavarian Rivers, Bavaria, sixteen wall paintings
from Fable of Cupid and Psyche, Palace
of Duke Max, Munich; Insane Asylum, Battle
of the Saxons (1834, cartoon), Battle of
the Huns (1835-37, cartoon), Raczynski Gallery,
Berlin; Destruction of Jerusalem (1838,
cartoon) (1842-47, in oil), New Pinakothek,
Munich; Deliverance of Holy Sepulchre by
the Crusaders; Christ in Purgatory; Anacreon
and his Love, Villa Rosenstein, near
Stuttgart; Artist's portrait from Masquerade
Festival in 1840, Germanic Museum, Nuremberg;
Life-size Group after Goethe's
Elegies, National Museum, Pesth; Wall
paintings in Treppenhaus, Berlin Museum:
Fall of Babel, Homer and the Greeks, Destruction
of Jerusalem, The Crusaders, Battle
of the Huns, The Reformation, and connecting
figures (1847-65); Apotheosis of a
Good King (1851), Schleissheim Gallery;
The Saga (1852), Shepherd Boy in Rome,
Raczynski Gallery, Berlin; Oil Sketches (19)
for Frescos (executed on outside of Pinakothek
by Nilson and Barth) representing Development
of Modern Art in Munich, Portrait
of King Louis I. of Bavaria (Sketch,
1843), Portraits of the Painters Heinlein
and Monten (1840), New Pinakothek, Munich;
Battle of Salamis, Stuttgart Museum;
Portrait of Louis I. of Bavaria, Pennsylvania
