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Munich, Riga (1795), and St. Petersburg (1799), returning home in 1804; visited Paris, and in 1805 settled in Dresden, where he became professor at the Academy in 1814. Member of Berlin and St. Petersburg Academies. Works: Andromeda (1810), Ariadne in Naxos (1816), National Gallery, Berlin; Christ and the two St. Johns; Prodigal Son, Dresden Museum; Moses, Christ, Mohammed, Leipsic Museum; Portraits of Blücher, Gneisenau, Goethe, Schiller, Wieland, and Herder. His son Wilhelm (1802-67) studied at Dresden and Rome, and was court-painter to the last Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 305; Hasse, Leben G. v. K.; Kaufmann, Bilder aus dem Rheinland (Cologne, 1884), 3; Kügelgen, Jugenderinnerungen; N. Necrol. d. D. (1832), 17; Riegel, 171.


KÜGELGEN, KARL FERDINAND, born at Bacharach in 1772, died at Revel, Russia, Jan. 9, 1832. Landscape painter, twin brother of Gerhard, whom he followed to Russia in 1796. He became court-painter in St. Petersburg, visited the Crimea in 1803 and 1806, by imperial order, and Finland in 1818. Settled in Revel in 1827. Works: Views in Crimea and Finland (85), Imperial Collection; Ten Ideal Landscapes.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 307; Hasse, Leben G. v. K.


KÜHLING, WILHELM, born in Berlin, Sept. 2, 1823, died in Berlin, Jan. 25, 1886. Landscape and animal painter, pupil of Berlin Academy; visited Switzerland, France, and Italy, painted at first portraits, and after being employed at the Court of Schwerin in 1844-52 settled in Berlin. Works: At the Brook; In Autumn; In the Meadow; At the Ford; Pasture (1874), National Gallery, Berlin.—Müller, 313; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 345.


KUHNEN, (PETER) LUDWIG, born at Aix-la-Chapelle, Feb. 14, 1812. Landscape painter, first instructed in his native city by J. Bastine, a pupil of Louis David, but mostly self-taught by study of nature; painted at first portraits, and in 1836 settled at Brussels. Medals: Brussels, 1841, 1845; Paris, 3d class, 1846; Bruges, 1850; Oporto, 1865; Vienna, Order of Leopold, 1856. Works: Pilgrim in Prayer by Gothic Ruin (1831); Burning of Feudal Castle; Evening Landscape (1841), do. (1846), King of Belgium; Souvenir of Banks of the Meuse (1842); Landscape (1845), Brussels Museum; Wooded Landscape (1847), Ravené Gallery, Berlin; Pictures in Aremberg Gallery, Brussels, and other private collections.—Immerzeel, ii. 142; Kramm, iii. 918; D. Kunstbl. (1852), 389.


KULMBACH, HANS VON, born at Kulmbach, Franconia, flourished in Nuremberg, died there previous to Dec. 3, 1522. Real name Hans Suess, formerly erroneously given as Wagner, then as Fuess. German school. History painter, pupil of Jacopo dei Barbari, then of Albrecht Dürer between 1511 and 1513, and also in 1518, and one of the representative masters of the German school. Works: Adoration of Magi (1511), Female Portrait, Berlin Museum; Triptych with Saints, Carlsruhe Gallery; Figures of Saints (6), Old Pinakothek, Munich; Figures of Saints (5), Finding of the Cross, Germanic Museum, Nuremberg; Triptych with Coronation of the Virgin (1513), St. Sebaldus, ib.; Male Portrait, Oldenburg Gallery; The Trinity and Saints, Nativity, Schleissheim Gallery; Two Portraits (1513), Consul Weber, Hamburg; Four Scenes in History of SS. Peter and Paul (? attributed to Schäuffelin), Uffizi, Florence; Series of Scenes from Legend of St. Catherine, St. Mary's Church, Cracow. Others in Gallery.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 363; Förster, ii. 312; Keane, Early Masters, 135; Kugler (Crowe), i. 176; Quellenschriften, x. 134; Rep. f. K., iii. 213; W. & W., ii. 403; Zeitschr. f. bild. Kunst., vi. 329; ix. 156; xi. 352.


KUMMER, KARL ROBERT, born in Dresden, May 30, 1810. Landscape painter,

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