KAULBACH, WILHELM vox, a celebrated German painter, was b. at Arolsen, in the principality of Waldeck, Oct. 15, 1805, and in his 17th year entered the academy of arts at DiIsseldorf, where he soon became one of Cornelius's best pupils. He seemed thoroughly penetrated by the severely ideal and allegorical spirit of that great master, yet even from the first he displayed no lack of individual genius. Among his first important productions (1828-29) were six symbolical figures, the best-known of which is - Apollo among the Muses." To the same period beloegs a work of a wholly differ ent and even opposite character, "The Madhouse," conceived and executed in the most vigorously realistic spirit. It added immensely to Kaulbach's repntation, and king Ludwig of Bavaria now employed him to decorate duke Maximilian's palace in Munich. For this he executed, in the strictly antique style, 16 frescos illustrating the fable of Psyche and Cupid. His designs from Klopstock, Goethe, and Wieland, for the same monarch, are also worthy of mention. In 1837 Kaulbach completed his "Battle of the
Huns," a picture representing the grand legend of the continutd struggle in mid-air of the souls of the Huns and Romans who had fallen before the walls of Rome, which was regarded as the culmination of the new German school. Nevertheless, the realism of which we have spoken still found expression in various works. Ilis patient study of Hogarth is quite visible in Iris illustrations of Schiller, of Goethe's Fayst. and Reineke Fuchs. In 1846 Kanlbach completed what is probably his elaf-erceuvre, the "Destruc tion of Jerusalme by Titus." It, is a marvelous mixture of history and symbolism. In 1849 Kaulbach succeeded Cornelius as director of the Bavarian academy of art. In 1859 he finished his "Battle of Salamis." The griRaille cartoon (in oil) of Peter Artries is one of his latest and most characteristic works: among his other paintings are "The Tower of Babel," and a series of frescos at Munich. Latterly Ire painted many por traits. He died April 7,1874.