Scholar in his Study, Stuttgart Museum; Portraits, Madrid Museum.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 535; Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Burger, Musées, ii. 181; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 393; Quellenschriften, xiv. 148; Stuers, 91.
KONINGSLOO. See Conincxloo.
KONRAD VON SOEST, German school,
flourished early part of 15th century. The
most prominent master of the school of
Soest, which he raised to a standard equal
to that of Rhenish art. Works: Great Altarpiece
at Nieder-Wildungen (1402); Pictures
in Münster and Soest.—Allgem. d.
Biogr., xvi. 652.
KOOI, WILLEM BARTEL VAN DER,
born at Augustïnusga, Friesland, May 13,
1768, died at Leewarden, July 14, 1836.
Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Frans
Swart, Johannes Verrier (1721-97), and
Hermanus Wouter Beckkerk (1756-96), at
Leewarden; in 1804 studied at Düsseldorf.
Member of Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Ghent
Academies. Works: Portraits of himself
and Dirks Jacobs Ploegsma, The Love Letter
(1808), Portrait of Johannes Kobell
(1811), Piano-playing Interrupted, Portraits
(3, 1804, copies after Van Dyck), Amsterdam
Museum.—Immerzeel, ii. 131; Kramm, iii.
904.
KOPISCH, AUGUST, born in Breslau,
May 26, 1799, died in Berlin, Feb. 3, 1853.
Landscape painter, pupil of the Prague and
Vienna Academies; studied in Dresden in
1819-22, and after visiting Rome, Naples,
and Breslau, lived in Berlin in 1833-47,
when he moved to Potsdam. Works: Falls
at Terni; Blue Grotto at Capri; Pontine
Marshes at Sunset (1848), National Gallery,
Berlin.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 661; Kunstblatt
(1853), 70, 159; Rosenberg, Berliner
Malerschule, 339.
KÖRLE, PANGRAZ, born in Munich,
Oct. 21, 1823, died there, April 23, 1875.
Genre painter, pupil of the Munich Academy,
then of Bernhardt in portrait painting;
went in 1845 to Vienna, where, through
study in the galleries and under Waldmüller's
influence, he was led to take up genre.
Returned in 1848 to Munich, where he soon
devoted himself successfully to subjects
from the Rococo period. Works: The Broken
Vase, Leipsic Museum; Waitress; Applause;
Consolation; In the Ancestral Hall;
Fettered; Angry Lovers; A Little Misfortune;
Ladies making Music; Cavalier and
Waitress.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 705; Allgem.
Zeitg., May 1, 1875; Kunst-Chronik,
x. 507.
KORNEK, ALBERT, born in Breslau,
Jan. 11, 1813. History, genre, and portrait
painter, pupil of Berlin Academy under
Kloeber, and of Düsseldorf Academy under
Karl Sohn; returned to Berlin in 1840.
Works: Faust and Gretchen; Jacob and
Rachel; Holy Family; St. Ann with her
Daughter Mary; St. Cecilia; Italian Woman
with Children before a Madonna; Latest
Despatch.—Müller, 307.
KÖRNER, ERNST, born at Stibbe,
West Prussia, Nov. 3, 1846. Landscape
and marine painter, pupil of Eschke, later
of Steffeck and Gottlieb Biermann; visited
the coasts of the North and Baltic Seas, the
Hartz Mountains, Northern France (1868),
Italy (1869), England and Scotland (1872),
then Egypt and the entire East (1873-74),
and Italy again in 1876. Medals in Vienna
(1873), and Philadelphia (1876). Works:
Douarenez in Brittany (1869); After the
Storm, Faraglioni in Capri (1872); Grotto
in Capri, Golden Horn (1873); Suez (1874),
Stettin Museum; Damascus (1874); Mahmudieh
Canal (1875); Baalbec on the Lebanon;
Sea near Alexandria; Colossus of
Memnon at Sunset; Sioot in Upper Egypt
in the Twilight.—Müller, 308; Leixner,
Mod. K., i. 93; ii. 119; Rosenberg, Berl.
Malersch, 341.
KOSAREK, ADOLF, born in Heraletz,
Bohemia, Jan. 6, 1830, died in Prague, Oct.
30, 1859. Landscape painter, pupil of
Prague Academy under Haushofer. Works:
View near Parduleitz, Summer Day, In the
Woods (1854); View in Middle Bohemia,
Ideal Landscape (1855); Wood Landscape
