July 15, 1855. Landscape and battle painter, son and pupil of Ferdinand Kobell, studied afterwards in the Mannheim and Düsseldorf Galleries, especially after Wouwerman; went to Rome in 1778, became professor at the Munich Academy in 1808, and visited Vienna and Paris in 1809-10, to make studies for his battle-pieces, which, containing many portraits of famous contemporaries, are of historical interest. Member of Berlin (1791) and Vienna (1808) Academies; Bavarian Civil Order of Merit in 1815; ennobled in 1833. Works: Conquest of Ulm; do. of Braunau; Skirmish near Günzburg; Entry of French-Bavarian Troops into Munich (1807); Third Day of Battle of Hanau (1808), New Pinakothek, Munich; Skirmish near Polozk (1812); Siege of Breslau; Surrender of Brieg, Cavalry Skirmish at Arnhofen (1809), Battles of Eckmühl and Wagram, Banquet Hall, Königsbau, ib.; Siege of Kosel (1806); Storming of Glatz, Attack of the Russians near Poglawi (1807); Battle at Bar sur Aube (1814); Cattle (1820), National Gallery, Berlin; Start for the Chase, Rocky Landscape, Bamberg Gallery; Cows and Sheep on the Alp, Cattle in a River, Return from the Chase, Carlsruhe Gallery; Loaded Donkeys on a Height, Horseman halting by Peasant Boy (1823), Darmstadt Museum; Herd and Shepherd Boy, Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Horse-pieces (2), Prehn Collection, ib.; Landscape with Cattle, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck; Peasant Family returning from Market, Leipsic Museum; Mountain Road with Carter and Peasant Woman (1822), Lady and Gentleman dismounted on Lake-shore (1790), Two Horsemen Galloping, Schleissheim Gallery; Hunting Party (1822), Weimar Museum; Landscape with Ploughing Team; do. with Freight Wagon, Wiesbaden Gallery; Alpine Shepherdess and Chamois Hunter Conversing, Similar Subject (1827), Horsemen with Horses and Dogs near a Lake (1832), Fürstenberg Gallery, Donaueschingen; several in Mannheim Gallery.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 357; Andresen, i. 114; Söltl.
KOBKE, CHRISTEN SCHJELLERUP,
born in Copenhagen, May 26, 1810, died
there, Feb. 7, 1848. Landscape, genre, and
portrait painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy
under Lorentzen and Eckersberg, went
to Rome in 1838, and afterwards to Naples.
In 1845-46 he painted frescos in the Thorvaldsen
Museum, and, having painted his
reception piece for the Academy, died of
grief over its rejection. Works: Old Sailor
(1832), Summer Morning near Osterbro
(1836), From Dosseringen (1839), Coast
View in Capri (1844), Copenhagen Gallery;
Bay of Naples (1843), Leipsic Museum;
View in Aarhus Cathedral; Antique Hall at
Charlottenburg; Frederiksborg Castle at
Sunset.—Weilbach, 390.
KOCH, JOHANN KARL, born at Hamburg
in 1806. History painter, went in
1827 to Munich, and thence visited Rome
in 1836. Works: Madonna with St. John,
Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Miraculous Cure of
Sick Boy, Departure of St. Bernard from
Speyer, Speyer Cathedral. Frescos in
Church of All Saints, Munich; do.: Pope
Gregory II. consecrating Boniface Apostle
of the Germans, Consecration of Kloster
Fulda, Murder of St. Maximilian at Cilly,
Styria in 284, Baptism of St. Ottilia, Bishop
Wulfram in Friesland rescuing two Youths
from the Sea, Murder of St. Kilian at Würzburg,
St. Walpurga saving by her Prayers a
Sick Girl, Return of St. Willibald from Pilgrimage
to the Holy Land, Baptism of Wittikind
at Attigny, Charlemagne at the
Council in Frankfort, Basilica, ib.—Cotta's
Kunstbl. (1836), 69.
KOCH, JOSEF, born in Munich in 1819,
died there, Feb. 17, 1872. Landscape and
animal painter, pupil of Albrecht Adam and
of Friedrich Voltz; tried also portraits
under Bernhardt, and studied in Antwerp;
after visits to Paris and Venice, returned
to Munich in 1846. Works: Ruin Kropfberg
in the Inn Valley (1849); View near
Antwerp (1851); Animals in the Woods
(1852); Grazing Cows (1853); Cattle Drinking
(1855); Frauenchiemsee by Moonlight
