Career
Between 1882 - 1883, he traveled to Italy, France, and England. In 1882/83, he took part in the painting of the Schloss Drachenburg near Bonn with a Nibelungenlied, the main picture, "The quarrel of the queens" comes from him. He then studied in Paris, where he was under Mihály Munkácsy and formed the large painting "Ganymede" created.
Between 1884/86, he was in Munich and created the colossal painting "Christ distributes the money changers out of the temple." But he was mainly busy with illustrations, such as for the works of Goethe and Paul Heyse, Gulliver"s Travels by Jonathan Swift, Edward Bulwer-Lytton"s The Last Days of Pompeii and various youth literature.
In 1889 he was appointed as Head of department at the Komponierschule Städel"sche (Institute of Frankfurt), where he worked seven years before returning to Munich in 1896 as a teacher of life drawing at the Munich Academy. In his last years, he painted mostly portraits.