KUEHL, kill, Gotthardt J., German painter: b. Lubeck, 28 Nov. 1850. He studied at Paris, Munich and in Holland. His range of subjects runs from peasantry interiors, ancient city views, churches, etc. Among his works are 'The Netrnaker,' in the Lubeck Museum; 'The Tete-a-tete,) in the Luxembourg, Paris; 'The Elbe Bridge,' in the Dresden Gallery; 'Sad News' (ib.) ; the Danzig Orphan Asylum,' in the Leipzig Museum; 'The Old Slaughter house,' in Magdeburg Museum; 'Sunday Morn,' in New Pinakothek, Munich; 'The Visit,' in Hanover Museum; 'King Arthur's Court in Danzig,' in Vienna Museum; 'View of the Frauenkirche,' etc. He has been created privy councillor and professor of the Dresden Academy, and is honorary member of the Imperial Academy of the Plastic Arts, Munich, etc.
kwen-loon, a great moun tain system of central Asia, a branch of the Himalayas, on the northern fringe of the Tibetan Plateau. It varies in breadth, both extremities being compressed, its middle portion consisting of numerous more or less parallel chains. Nearly the whole group is between lat.
30° and 40° N. The most northern part on the west is a continuous mountain-wall having several names and being farther continued by the Nan-shan and other chains well into China. Toward the south are three roughly parallel shorter ranges, the last of which, with its east ern continuations, forms the southern boundary of a mountainous region in which are the Tsai dam salt waste and the Koko-Nor lakes. Be tween the last-named group and one farther south the Hoang-ho rises. The most southerly chain of the central Kuen-lun is that of the Yang-la Mountains. The greatest elevation of the is in the western ranges, and reaches over 22,500 feet, while the chief western ranges average about 20,000 feet. Most of the peaks of the eastern chains, in China proper, are under 17,000 feet.