and North Italy. Works: Evening in Autumn; Wood Interior.—Müller, 305.
KOLBE, KARL WILHELM, the younger,
born in Berlin, March 7, 1781, died there,
April 8, 1853. History painter, pupil of Berlin
Academy under Chodowiecki, formed
himself chiefly after the works of Dutch
masters. Member of Berlin Academy in
1815, professor and senator in 1830. Works:
Duke Albrecht Achilles taking an Ensign;
Otto the Great in Battle; Doge and Dogaressa;
Battle at Fehrbellin; Last Moments
of Duke Wratislaw of Pomerania; Scenes
from Nibelungen Lied, Marble Palace, Potsdam;
Ascension, Schlosskirche, ib.; Mediæval
Street, Knights of Teutonic Order
(1824), Marienburg, Charles V. in Flight,
The Dead Frederick Barbarossa at Battle of
Antioch, National Gallery, Berlin (lent to
Stettin Museum).—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi.
463; Kunstblatt (1850), 177; (1851), 110;
(1853), 142, 380; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch.,
25.
KOLITZ, LOUIS, born in Tilsit, April 5,
1845. Military, genre, and battle painter,
pupil of Berlin Academy, then in Düsseldorf
of Oswald Achenbach; influenced by Karl
Sohn and Bendemann; took part in the
campaign of 1866 and 1870-71, and became
in 1880 director of Cassel Academy. Medal
in Vienna in 1873. Works: Decamping of
Lansquenets (1868); Siege of a City (1869);
Wood Border near Orléans, French Infantry
before Metz (1872); Taking of French Battery,
Prussians at Mars la Tour (1873); Battle
of Gravelotte, Uhlan-Vedette, Great Army
of Napoleon in Winter; Scene from Skirmish
at Vendôme, From Scene of Action
before Metz (1870), National Gallery, Berlin;
Funeral Procession (1884).—Kunst-Chronik,
xx. 749; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xviii.
558; Müller, 306; Leixner, Mod. K., i. 51;
ii. 88, 114.
KOLLE, CLAUS ANTON, born at Sandby,
Laaland, Nov. 25, 1827, died in Copenhagen,
Sept. 2, 1872. Landscape painter,
pupil of Copenhagen Academy; went in
1854 to Dresden and Munich as a scene
painter, then painted historical subjects and
portraits before devoting himself to landscape;
went in 1857 to Rome, where he
spent several years; was at Biarritz in 1867
and at Aix-la-Chapelle in 1869. Member
of Copenhagen Academy. Works: Christ
at Emmaus (1857); Wood Section on Himmelbjerget
(1860), Copenhagen Gallery;
View in the Colosseum, Temple of Vesta,
View on Lake Nemi (1862); Forest of Vinderöd
(1866); Rocky Precipices at Möen
(1867); Rain in Oat-Fields (1870); Spring
in the Woods; Coast View at Oen Moen
(1871), Copenhagen Gallery.—Sig. Müller,
212; Weilbach, 394.
KOLLER, RUDOLF, born in Zürich in
1828. Idyl and animal painter, pupil in
Zürich of Ulrich; studied then in Stuttgart,
and one year at the Düsseldorf Academy,
finally in Belgium and Paris after the old
masters. In 1850-51 he lived in Munich,
and in 1856 settled in Zürich. Medal, Paris,
2d class, 1878. Works: Farming in Switzerland
(1869); Watering Place, Storm in
the Mountains (1870); Cows in Cabbage
Field; Herd in the Alps, Musée Rath, Geneva;
Lake of Wallenstädt; Idyl from
Berner Oberland, Saint Gall Museum; Mid-*day
Rest, Evening Landscapes (2), Alp in
Engelberg Valley, White Horse in Stable,
Zürich Gallery; Stag-Hunt; Cow and Calf
run astray in the Mountains (1856), Berne
Museum; Cows in Fog; Autumn Evening;
Cows with Maid; Meeting (1875); After Sun-*set;
Four Oxen Ploughing, Dresden Museum;
Siesta, Morning on the Alp (1885).—D.
Kunstbl. (1853), 411; (1857), 227; Kunst-Chronik;
Müller, 306; Zeitschr. f. b. K.,
xx. 115.
KOLLER, WILHELM, born in Vienna
in 1829, died in Germany in 1885. Historical
genre painter, pupil of Vienna and
Düsseldorf (1851-55) Academies; lived in
1856-59 in Antwerp, then settled in Brussels.
A few years ago he removed to
Paris, but became reduced in his circumstances
and went to Germany, where he is
said to have succumbed to privations.
