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(1856); Cemetery by the Sea, Winter Night (1857); Solitude, From the Valleys of Kokorschin, Ideal Landscape (1858).—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi, 737.

KOSKULL, ANDERS GUSTAF, Baron, born in Stockholm, Nov. 27, 1831. Genre painter, studied at first at home, then at the Düsseldorf Academy under Karl Sohn and Tidemand, and in Paris under Couture; returned to Sweden in 1860, visited Germany in 1862, studying especially in the Berlin and Dresden Galleries. Member of Stockholm Academy since 1868. Works: Beggar Family; Prayer at Church; Peasants before Church; Chimney Sweep is Coming! Sexton's Collection; Morning after the Ball; Girls on the Ice; Oblation at Church; Savoyard in Prison; Household Work, Stockholm Museum.—Müller, 308.

KOSSAK, JULIUS, born in Lemberg, Galicia, about 1830. Genre and animal painter; attracted general attention at the exhibitions in Lemberg when fifteen, studied afterwards in Paris under Horace Vernet, and became especially an admirable painter of horses. Works: Horse-Market at Prague; Cossacks on the March; Three Pictures illustrating the Polish Epic Mohort (1856); Poniatowski visiting Mohort's Stud in the Ukraine; Potocki receiving the Staff Field-Marshal.—Wurzbach, Biog. Lex., xiii. 2.

KOTSCH, THEODOR, born in Hanover in 1818, died at Munich, Nov. 27, 1885. Landscape painter, studied in Hanover and Munich, then from nature in the Hartz and Solling Mountains, and about 1860 settled in Carlsruhe, chiefly attracted there by Schirmer. Works: Weser Landscape, Landscape in the Hartz (1861); Under High Trees (1863); Late Evening (1865); The Regenstein in the Hartz (1866), Carlsruhe Gallery; Road with Horseman, Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Kloster Michelstein in the Hartz, Trees by the Water at Sunset, Hartz Landscape, View in Upper Bavaria (1867); Oak Hill with Outlook on Ammensee, German Wood Landscape, Saw-Mill, Evening in June (1874); Woody Landscape (1877).—Kunst-Chronik, xx. 252; xxi. 52; Müller, 308.

KOTZEBUE, ALEXANDER VON, born in Königsberg, June 9, 1815. History and battle painter, pupil of St. Petersburg Academy under Sauerweid; won great gold medal in 1844, lived then in Paris until 1848, visited the Netherlands and Italy, and settled in Munich. Medal, Paris, 3d class, 1867. Works: Storming of Warsaw (1844); Storming of Schlüsselburg; Battle of Poltava; Storming of Narva; Suvoroff crossing Panixer Pass; Episode from Battle on the Trebbia; Skirmish at the Devil's Bridge; Crossing the Bothnic Gulf; Foundation of St. Petersburg, Maximilianeum, Munich; General Scheremetjeff receiving for Peter the Great the Oath of Allegiance of City of Riga.—D. Kunstbl. (1856), 46; (1857), 62; (1858), 60; Müller, 309; Land und Meer (1870), i. 27.

KOWALSKI VON WIERUSZ, ALFRED, born in Warsaw, Poland; contemporary. History and genre painter, pupil of Warsaw, Dresden, and Munich Academies, at the latter under Alexander Wagner and Joseph Brandt. Medal, 2d class, Munich, 1883. Many of his paintings are owned in England and America. Works: Battue in Poland; Duel after the Ball; Genre Scenes from 18th Century; Military Scenes among the Circassians; Episodes from the Fights between Russians and Mountaineers in Transcaucasia; Travelling in Russia, Knoedler & Co., New York; Hunting Scene (Morgan sale, New York, 1886, $2,225).—Müller, 309.

KOZAKIEWICZ, ANTON, born in Cracow in 1844. Genre painter, pupil of Cracow Art School and Vienna Academy under Engerth; settled in Munich. Works: Last Moments of a Leader (1869); A Recovery (1870); Grandfather's Teacher (1871);