Career
He held his first exhibition at the Stuttgart Art Academy. He provided illustrations of animals and landscapes for a large number of zoology and veterinary science publications, notably for the first edition of Brehms Tierleben (1864-1869) conceived by Alfred Edmund Brehm, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (1890—1907), Karl Christoph Vogt"s Die Säugetiere in Wort und Bild (1883-1889) and Richard Lydekker"s Royal Natural History (1894-1896). He was responsible for the lion"s head on Adolf Gnauth"s memorial to the fallen warriors of Stuttgart.
