(1859); View near Feldwies (1862); Frauen Insel (1864); Morning in the Fields (1856), Pasture near Antwerp (1858), Harvest (1861), Munich Art Union.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 392; Allgem. Zeitg., March 10, 1872, Beilage, 70.
KOCH, JOSEF ANTON, born at Obergiebeln,
Tyrol, July 27,
1768, died in Rome, Jan.
12, 1839. Landscape
painter, pupil of the Karlschule,
Stuttgart; went
in 1791 to Strasburg, and
in 1793 to Basle; in 1795
travelled on foot to Naples,
where he studied
from nature, and in the
spring following went to
Rome, where he was closely allied with
Carstens and Wächter, who greatly influenced
his artistic development. In 1812-15
was in Vienna, where he painted his best
landscapes; in 1815 returned to Rome.
Aiming at the regeneration of historical
landscape painting, as cultivated by Poussin,
this master stands, together with Johann
Christian Reinhardt, midway between Carstens
and Cornelius. Works: Rape of Hylas,
Polyphemus, Nausicaä, Outlook on the Sea,
Acis and Galatea, Macbeth, Diana and Actæon,
Orestes pursued by Furies, Apollo
and Shepherds, Cadmus killing a Dragon,
Judgment of Paris, Abraham visited by Angels,
Building of the Ark, Deluge, Boaz and
Ruth, Hercules, Rinaldo and Armida, Antigone
and Polynices (1800-1812); Landscape
with St. George (1809), Augsburg Gallery;
Schmadri Falls in Lauterbrunn Valley (1811),
Noah's Sacrifice (1813), Ideal Landscape with
Jacob's Return (1816), Leipsic Museum;
Monastery of S. Francesco di Civitella (1814),
National Gallery, Berlin; Vigne de Belvedere
di Olevano (1815), After the Storm,
The Schmadri Brook Falls in Switzerland,
New Pinakothek, Munich; Italian Landscape,
Schack Gallery, ib.; Falls at Tivoli
(1818), Darmstadt Museum; Rape of Hylas,
Balaam's Ass, Noah's Sacrifice, Städel Gallery,
Frankfort; Landscape after Storm, do.
with River, Stuttgart Museum; Night Landscape
with Adoration of the Magi, View in
Bernese Oberland, Macbeth and the Witches,
Ruth and Boaz, Apollo among the Shepherds,
The Tyrolese Landsturm of 1809,
Scene from Dante's Inferno, Ferdinandeum,
Innsbruck; Macbeth and the Witches (1829),
Views of and near Olevano (2), View on the
Tiber near Rome, Basle Museum; Four
Scenes from Dante's Inferno (fresco, 1829),
Villa Massimi, Rome; Tivoli, Grotta Ferrata,
View near Olevano with Greek Figures,
Maria Maggiore, Rape of Hylas, Tyrolese
View (1829-33); Diana Bathing (1833);
Replicas of Macbeth, Apollo and Shepherds,
Noah's Sacrifice (1834-36); Rape of Ganymede
(1838).—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 388;
Allgem. Zeitg. (1839), Beilage, 51, 382;
Andresen, i. 9; Dohme, K. u. K. des XIX.
Jahrh., 2; Förster, iv. 59; Haakh, Beiträge,
11; Jordan (1885), ii. 122; D. Kunstblatt
(1855), 37; Kunst-Chronik, xix. 213; Raczynski,
iii. 300; Reber, i. 166; Riegel, i.
107; Schack, Meine Gemäldesammlung
(1884), —; Wurzbach, xii. 184; Zeitschr.
f. b. K., x. 65.
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KÖCKERT, JULIUS, born in Leipsic, June 5, 1827. History and genre painter, pupil of Prague Academy under Rubens; went in 1850 to Munich, where he painted some of the frescos in the National Museum, and the greater part of the Battle of Salamis, after Kaulbach's composition, in the Maximilianeum; likewise of Kaulbach's Otto III. in the Germanic Museum at Nuremberg. Many of his works are owned in England and America. Medal at Teplitz, 1879. Works: Haroun al Raschid, Maximilianeum, Munich; Solstice Festival in the Alps; Hay-Harvest on Chiem Lake; Dance of Elves; Hero and Leander.—Müller, 305.
KOEBERGER. See Cobergher.
KOECK, MICHAEL, born at Innsbruck,
Aug. 29, 1760, died in Rome in Nov., 1825.
History painter, pupil of Peter Denifle, then
in Milan (1777-86) of Martin Knoller, whence
he went as Imperial pensionary to Rome,
