Works: Place of Refuge; Emigrants; Scenes from Peasants' War; Marriage of Archduke Ferdinand with Philippine Welser; Tilly's Retreat after Battle of Magdeburg; Baptism of Luther; Faust and Gretchen in the Garden; Sunday Morning; Dürer receiving Message from Margaret of Parma; Wedding Procession of Archduke Maximilian in Ghent; Philippine Welser interceding for her Husband; Charles V. at Fugger's; Emperor Maximilian at Dürer's; Departure for the War; Almsgiving; Hugo van der Goes painting Portrait of the Infanta Marie de Bourgogne, New York Museum.—Art Journal (1867), 9; Journal des B. Arts (1860), 144; Kunst-Chronik, xx. 605.
KOLLOCK, MARY, born in Norfolk, Va.,
in 1840. Landscape painter, studied at the
Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, under
Robert Wylie, and in New York with J. B.
Bristol and A. H. Wyant. Studio in New
York; exhibits at the National Academy.
Works: Midsummer in the Mountains
(1876); On the Road to Mount Marcy
(1877); Evening Walk (1878); Coming
Home (1879); Two-hundred-and-twenty-year-old
House in East Hampton (1880);
Empty Chair (1881); On Rondout Creek,
Blind Fiddler (1882); Brook (1883); Gathering
Wild Flowers (1884).
KOMPE (Compe), JAN TEN, born at
Amsterdam, Feb. 14, 1713, died there in
1761. Dutch school; landscape and city
view painter, pupil of Dirk Dalens, the
younger (1688-1753), but took Jan van der
Heyden and Gerrit Berkheyde for his models.
Works: Market in Haarlem, Copenhagen
Gallery; Country House near Antwerp
(1755), Street in Dutch City, Gotha
Museum; Landscape with Sheep (1757),
Kunsthalle, Hamburg; View of Dutch
Gracht (1740), Moat of Dutch City, Schwerin
Gallery.—Immerzeel, i. 144; Kramm,
i. 258; Scheltema, Aemstels Oudh., v.
70.
KÖNIG, (FRANZ) NIKOLAUS, born in
Berne, April 5, 1760, died March 27, 1832.
Landscape painter, pupil of Freudenberger
at Berne. Lived at Interlaken in 1798-1800.
Works: The Staubbach (1804), Berne Museum;
Interlaken and Unterseen.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., xvi. 505; Cotta's Kunstblatt (1822),
344; (1832), 212; Goethe, Ueber Kunst und
Alterthum, ii. 132.
KÖNIG, GUSTAV, born in Coburg, April
2, 1808, died in Erlangen, April 30, 1869.
History painter, pupil of the Nuremberg
Art School in 1830-32, then of the Munich
Academy under Schnorr. Painted seven
scenes from Saxon history for the Duke of
Coburg, and thenceforth took his subjects
principally from the Reformation period, as
he is also called Luther-König. Works:
Seven Scenes from Reformation in Saxony
(1837, seq.); Elector John Frederic at Chess;
Nathan's Sermon before David (1861), New
Pinakothek, Munich; Luther and Zwingli
at Marburg (1862).—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi.
512; Dioskuren (1870), 177; Förster, v.
104; Reber, ii. 53; Regnet, i. 343; Ebrard,
Gust. König, sein Leben u. s. Kunst (Erlangen,
1870).
KÖNIG, JOHANN, flourished at Augsburg
about 1600. German school, history
painter; executed for the town hall at Augsburg
a Last Judgment, the Story of Ananias
and Sapphira, and three Allegories on the
Manner of Ruling. He often painted on
agate, marble, and other stones, e.g., the
Last Judgment and the Passage of the Israelites
through the Red Sea, painted on
both sides of an agate, in the University
Library at Upsala. In the Vienna Museum
are four pictures of the Seasons, represented
by children playing, harvesting, etc. If
identical with the painter of a series of four
landscapes in the Sienna Academy, and with
Jacob König, by whom are four landscapes
with figures in the Gallery at Wiesbaden,
and several in the Städel Gallery at Frankfort,
he was in Rome in 1613, and there possibly
a pupil of Elsheimer, of whose well-known
picture Contento he made a copy in
1617, which is in the royal palace at Munich.
By his son, Niklaes, who flourished
at Nuremberg about 1600 (?), there is a
