- ation; frescos in Lerchenfeld Church, Vienna.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., xvii. 405; Dioskuren (1862), 384; Kunstbl. (1854), 464; (1856), 174; (1857), 199; Wurzbach, xiii. 392; Raczynski, ii. 553.
KUPETZKY (Kópecky), JOHANN, born
at Poesing, Upper Hungary, in 1667, died
in Nuremberg, June 4, 1740. German
school. History and portrait painter, pupil
of the Swiss painter Klaus in Vienna, whence
he went to Venice and Rome to study Correggio,
Guido, and Titian. After living in
Italy twenty-two years, he went upon invitation
of Prince Adam von Liechtenstein to
Vienna, where he won the favour of Joseph
I., Charles VI., and of Prince Eugene of
Savoy, and became popular as a portrait
painter. Later he went to Nuremberg. He
was a capital draughtsman, and a powerful
though often heavy colourist. Works: Portrait
of Peter the Great, Artist and his Son,
Himself at the Easel, King Augustus of Poland,
A Hungarian Magnate, Two Female
Portraits, Male Portrait, Two Head Studies,
Brunswick Museum; Portrait of Himself,
Darmstadt and Dresden Museums; do., and
Portrait of Rákoczy, Gotha Museum; Male
Portrait (of himself?), Kunsthalle, Hamburg;
Old Woman with Letter, Leipsic
Museum; Lady's Portrait, Old Pinakothek,
Munich; Artist's Portrait, Milan Academy;
do. (2), and Portrait of Rákoczy, A Boy, and
Male Portraits (4), Germanic Museum, Nuremberg;
Dutch Genre Pieces (2), Artist
and his Son, Artist's Wife, Count Zinzendorf,
Man in Armour, Town-hall, ib.; Bishop
Baron von Hutten, Artist and his Son,
Schleissheim Gallery; St. Peter, Artist's
Portrait, Schwerin Gallery; Portraits of
himself and of his wife, Stuttgart Museum;
A Lady with her Boy, Artist before Easel
(1706), Museum, Vienna; Mythological Subjects,
Saints, and Portraits, Liechtenstein
Gallery and
in other private
galleries,
ib.; Portraits (10-12), National Museum,
Pesth; Prince Eugene of Savoy, Versailles
Museum.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 408; Dlabacz,
ii. 160; Füssli, Leben des Geo. Phil.
Rugendas u. des Joh. Kupeczky (Zürich,
1758); Kugler (Crowe), ii. 552; Lipowsky,
i. 167, 193; Wurzbach, xiii. 396.
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KUPPELMAYER, RUDOLF, born at Kaufbeuren in 1843. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Munich Academy, where he took Kaulbach for his model; studied then for two years in Nuremberg under Kreling, lived in Italy, especially at Venice, in 1869-72, and settled in Munich. Medals in Vienna (1873) and London (1874); Order of Michael (1876). Works: Portrait (1872); Italian Concert (1873); Drunken Soldiers in Thirty Years' War; After the Bath (1876); Farewell of Duke Albrecht IV. (1879).—Müller, 314.
KURELLA, LUDOVIK VON, born in
Warsaw, Aug. 13, 1836. History painter,
pupil of Warsaw Academy, studied then in
Dresden under Schnorr and in Munich under
Kaulbach; went to Rome and visited
Paris, Brussels, Antwerp, and Berlin, where
he was influenced by Cornelius; returned
to Munich, and studied at the Academy
under Ramberg. Most of his works are
bought in England. Works: Death of
Moses; Ferry in Poland; Goldfish; Switezianka;
Polish Market (1875).—Müller,
314.
KURTZ, KARL, born in Stuttgart in
1817. Portrait and genre painter, pupil of
Stuttgart Art School and of Vienna Academy
under Danhauser; visited Hungary,
Rome, Venice, Milan, and Florence (1842-44),
also France and Belgium; lived in
Munich in 1844-45, in Dresden and Berlin
in 1846, then visited England and Holland,
afterwards repeatedly France and Italy, and
in 1848 became professor at the Polytechnic
in Stuttgart. Gold medal, 1853; medal,
1859; Order of Frederic. Work: Portrait
of King William I. (1853).—Müller, 314.
KURZBAUER, EDUARD, born in Vienna,
May 2, 1840, died in Munich, Jan. 13,
1879. Genre painter, pupil of the Vienna
Academy in 1857-61, and in Munich of Pi-
