Munich, where he painted for the Royal Winter Garden, and Villa Linderhof. Court-*painter. Works: Court-Yard in Nuremberg; Court-Yard in Florence; Ruins of Roman Palace (1866); Castle Ruin of the Renaissance; Tomb in Roman Campagna (1866); Convent Yard with Well (1868); Roman Landscape (1872); View in Neglected Park (1874); Roman Hot Springs; Corinthian Ruin in the Campagna; similar subject (1885).—Dioskuren (1872), 211; Kunst-Chronik, xx. 671; Leixner, D. mod. K., i. 114; Land und Meer (1883), ii. 839.
KNACKFUSS, HERMANN, born at Wissen.
History painter, pupil of Düsseldorf
Academy under Bendemann; took part in
the campaign of 1870-71, went to Rome in
1875, and became professor at the Cassel
Academy in 1880. Works: Attila's Queen
receiving Presents from Byzantine Ambassadors
(1876); First Fruits (1877); Capture of
Frederick the Fair in Battle of Mühldorf,
1322 (1883); Painter's Studio in 16th Century
(1884). Frescos: Ceiling in new Government
Building at Cassel; Two Episodes
in History of German Empire (1884), Vestibule
of Railway Station at Strassburg; Battle
of Turin (in progress), Arsenal, Berlin.—Kunst-Chronik,
xvii. 222; xviii. 435, 531;
Leixner, Mod. K., i. 98; Müller, 301.
KNAPP, JOHANN, born in Vienna, Sept.
5, 1778, died at Schönbrunn, near Vienna,
Feb. 18, 1833. Flower painter, pupil of Vienna
Academy under Drechsler; called to
arms in 1797, he returned, after the conclusion
of peace, to his profession, and in 1804
became painter to the Archduke Anton. His
most remarkable work is a bouquet (7 ft. ×
5 ft.), composed of flowers of all climes,
painted for Baron Jacquin in 1820-21. Other
works: Flower and Fruit-Pieces, Vienna
Museum; Styrian Alpine Plants (2), Joanneum,
Gratz; Roses, Hyacinths, Exotic
Flowers, Flora Alpina (300 water-colors),
for Archduke John; Flower-Piece (1816),
Weimar Museum; Alpine Plants Exotic
Plants, for the Grandduke of Weimar.—Hormayr's
Archiv. (1821), 138; Wurzbach, xii. 137.
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KNAUS, LUDWIG, born at Wiesbaden,
Oct. 10, 1829. Genre painter, pupil of Düsseldorf
Academy under
Sohn and Schadow
in 1846-52, studied
then in Paris until
1860; visited Italy in
1857-58; lived in Berlin
in 1861-66, and at
Düsseldorf from 1866
to 1874. Professor
at the Berlin Academy
from 1874 to 1884,
when he resigned. He is one of the leaders
of the younger Düsseldorf school, and the
foremost genre painter in Germany. Member
of the Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Amsterdam,
Antwerp, and Christiania Academies;
Medals: Paris, 2d class, 1853; 1st class,
1855, 1857, 1859; Medal of Honour, 1867;
L. of Honour, 1859; Officer, 1867; Knight
of Prussian Order of Merit, etc., and many
medals. Works: Peasant Dance (1850);
Cheaters at Cards (1851), Düsseldorf Gallery
and Leipsic Museum; Bee-Keeper, Age does
not protect against Folly (1851); Funeral in
the Woods (1852); Countess Helfenstein
begging for her Husband's Life. Pickpocket
(1852); The Promenade (1855), Luxembourg
Museum; Woman playing with Cats (1856),
two others, Ravené Gallery, Berlin; The Toper,
Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Country-Town
People in a Village Inn, Wiesbaden Gallery;
Morning after Kirmess, Golden Wedding
(1858); After the Christening (1859); Wochenstube,
Tyrolese Brawlers before their
Parson (1864); Gypsies Resting (1865), Königsberg
Museum; Juggler; Table in the
Corner (1869); Children's Festival (1869),
National Gallery, Berlin; Funeral in a Hessian
Village (1870); Beggar Boy (1871); His
Highness Travelling; Child with Doll; Old
Woman with Cats; Organ-Grinder; Council
of Peasants; In a thousand Fears, Die
Geschwister (1872); Holy Family (1875);
Tavern Scene (1876); The Refractory Model
(1877); Solomonic Wisdom (1878); Glimpse
behind the Scene (1880), Dresden Gallery;
