- —Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 466; Allgem.
Zeitg., April 2, 1871, Beilage, 92.
KOETS, ROELOF, born at Zwolle in
1656, died there in 1725. Dutch school;
portrait painter, pupil of Gerard Terburg;
was much employed by Henry Casimir of
Nassau, Stadtholder of Friesland, and afterwards
by William III., and is said to have
painted five thousand portraits. Works:
Portrait of Henry Casimir of Nassau, Amsterdam
and Antwerp Museums; Female
Portrait, Lille Museum.—Immerzeel, ii. 127.
KOHL, LUDWIG, born in Prague, April
14, 1746, died there, June 18, 1821. History
painter, pupil of Vienna Academy, of
which he was made member in 1769, and in
1775 professor at the newly-erected Model
School in Prague. Honorary member of
Parma Academy, 1773. Works: Dido,
Cleopatra, St. Aretius (1767); Virginius
stabbing his Daughter (1769); Adoration of
the Cross (1770), Prague Gallery; Joseph's
Dream, Martyrdom of St. Lawrence (1771);
Nativity (1773); Madonna (1775); St. James
(1776); St. Barbara (1779); Tarquin and
Lucretia (1780); Death of Lucretia, Solomon
in Idolatry (1785); Trinity (1786);
Hannibal's Oath, Cupid and Psyche, Temple
of Hygeia, Three Graces, Socrates in Prison
(1801); Abstinence of Scipio, Gothic Church,
Rittersaal, Gothic Tomb, Schlosskirche in
Prague, Coronation Hall at Prague, Interior
of Schlosskirche (1803); St. Bartholomew
(1812); St. Cecilia, Magdalen, Catherine,
John Baptist, Susanna, Joseph in Egypt,
Queen Zenobia, Crucifixion, Entombment
(before 1818); Assembly of the Notables in
Coronation Hall at Prague.—Allgem. d.
Biogr., xvi. 428; Wurzbach, Biogr. Lex., xii.
292.
KÖHLER, CHRISTIAN, born at Werben,
Altmark, Oct. 13, 1809, died at Montpellier,
Jan., 1861. History and portrait painter,
pupil of the Düsseldorf Academy under
Schadow, of whose school he became one of
the foremost artists. Works: Rebekah at
the Well (1833); Song of Miriam (1837),
Cologne Museum; Poetry (1838); Semiramis
(1843); Hagar and Ishmael (1844),
Düsseldorf Gallery; Finding of Moses; Exposure
of Moses; Triumph of David; Susanna;
Romeo and Juliet; Gretchen at the
Spinning-Wheel; Mignon; Germania with
the Genius of Liberty (1849), New York
Historical Society; Semiramis (1852), National
Gallery, Berlin; Portrait of Ferd.
Hiller.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 438; Wolfg.
Müller, Düsseld. K., 34; Wiegmann, 139.
KÖHNHOLZ, JULIUS, born in Bremen,
March 7, 1839. Landscape painter, self-*taught
in Munich and on travels in Italy,
Tyrol, and in the Austrian and Bavarian
Alps. Medal in London (1874). Works:
Storm on Lake Constance (1871); Sirocco
Storm on Coast of Genoa (1872); Evening
on Riviera di Ponente, Traun Lake (1873);
Storm on Italian Coast; Lake Garda near
Malcesine.—Müller, 305.
KOKEN, EDMUND, born at Hanover,
June 4, 1814, died there, Oct. 30, 1872.
Landscape painter, studied at the Polytechnic
School in Hanover and then in Munich
(1836-44), where he was especially allied
with Kreling and much influenced by Rottmann.
Works: Great Wood Landscape,
Cottage on a Pond, Landscape with Figures,
Evening Landscape, Street about
Christmas Time, Twelve Cartoons of Landscapes,
Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Several
in Royal Gallery, ib.—Allgem. d. Biogr.,
xvi. 455.
KOKEN, GUSTAV, born in Hanover,
Aug. 8, 1850. Landscape painter, pupil in
Hanover of his uncle, Edmund Koken and in
Weimar of Theodor Hagen. Works: Winter
Landscape (1877); Heath (1878); Evening
Landscape in Thuringia (1879); Wall
Paintings in Villa Hügel, Hanover.—Leixner,
D. mod. K., i. 58; ii. 117; Müller,
305.
KOKEN, PAUL, born in Hanover, Jan. 2,
1853. Landscape painter, son of, and first
instructed by, Edmund Koken, then studied
in Munich under the influence of Lier and
in Weimar under that of Theodor Hagen;
travelled on the Rhine, in South Germany,
