Landscape after Rain.—Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldorfer K., 359.
KLENGEL, JOHANN CHRISTIAN, born
at Kesselsdorf near Dresden, May 5, 1751,
died at Dresden, Dec. 19, 1824. Genre and
landscape painter, pupil of Dresden Academy
under Dietrich, then studied in Italy
(1790-92), and was for many years at the
head of the Dresden landscape painters;
especially successful in giving morning and
evening light-effects, and a close imitator of
nature. Member of and professor at Dresden
Academy. Works: Apollo tending
Herd of Admetus, Similar Subject, Dresden
Museum; Winter Landscape with Skaters,
Shepherdess and Herd at Sunset, Gotha
Museum; Landscape with Herd (copy after
Berghem), Leipsic Museum; Cows in Pasture
(1779), Schwerin Gallery; Animals
driven by Peasant Boy across Water, Shepherd
Family with Cattle Resting, Stuttgart
Museum.—Allgem. Zeitg. (1825), Beilage
No. 51; Nagler, vii. 51.
KLENZE, LEO VON, born near Hildesheim,
Feb. 29, 1784, died at Munich, Jan.
26, 1864. Architecture and landscape painter,
pupil in Paris of Bourgeois, but more
famous as an architect; visited England,
Italy, Greece, and seven times St. Petersburg,
where he built the Hermitage and St.
Isaac's Cathedral. Works: View of Agrigentum;
Zanthe in the 8th Century; Ideal
View of Athens under Hadrian, New Pinakothek,
Munich; Interior of Saracen Palace
at Ravello, Schack Gallery, ib.; Pirano
in Istria, Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhagen.—Brockhaus,
x. 336; Dioskuren (1864), 49;
Nagler, vii. 53; Regnet, i. 296; Schack,
Meine Gemäldesammlung (1884), 232.
KLEVER, JULIUS VON, born at Dorpat,
Jan. 19 (31), 1850. Landscape painter, pupil
of St. Petersburg Academy under Michael
Clodt and Warjabjoff, and studied from nature
in the Baltic provinces. Member of
St. Petersburg Academy in 1878, professor
in 1881. Many of his best pictures are in
the St. Petersburg Academy. Works: Esthonian
Fisherman's Hut; Twenty Degrees
Réaumur; Russian Autumn; Twilight by
the Sea; Calm; Esthonian Mill; Isle of
Nargö near Revel; Deserted Park in Livonia;
Russian Forest in Winter; Still Life
in the Woods; Wilted Leaves.—Meyer,
Conv. Lex., xxi. 502.
KLEYN, LORENZ LUDWIG, born at
Demarara, British Guiana, in 1826. History
and portrait painter, pupil of Antwerp
Academy and student of the works of the
old masters in Amsterdam. Went in 1851
to Italy, spent many years at Rome and, after
a sojourn in Stuttgart, returned to Holland
in 1868. Works: Eliezer and Rebekah;
Samaritan Woman at the Well; Hagar and
Ishmael; Banquet of Belshazzar; Wedding
at Cana (1864); Portraits of Princess Alexandrine
of Prussia and Pope Pius IX.—Christl.
Kunstbl. (1864); Meyer, Conv. Lex.,
xvii. 501.
KLINKENBERG, JOHANNES CHRISTIAAN
KAREL, born at The Hague, Jan.
14, 1852. Painter of city views, pupil of
Christoffel Bisschop; studio at The Hague.
Works: Great Square at Nymwegen (1877),
Episode in Siege of Leyden, Amsterdam
Museum; Fish-Pond at The Hague, Rotterdam
Museum; Spanish Quay at Rotterdam,
View at The Hague (1880); Old Women's
Hospital at The Hague (1881).
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KLÖCKER VON EHRENSTRAHL,
DAVID, born in Hamburg
in 1620, died in
Stockholm in 1698.
German school; history
and portrait painter,
pupil in Amsterdam
of Georg Jacobs,
then in Italy of Pietro
da Cortona; became
Swedish court-painter
in 1661, was ennobled
by Charles XI. in 1674, and made court-intendant
in 1690. Works: Descent from the
Cross, Last Judgment (1694), St. Nicholas,
Stockholm; Coronation of Charles XI.,
Drottningholm; Portrait of Charles XI.—Faber,
iii. 378.
