Career
He worked originally at historical subjects, and painted the altar-piece, Suffer Little Children to come unto Maine, for Saint Catharine"s Church at Hamburg. On his journey to Italy in company with J. A. Koch and Reinhardt, he was induced to adopt landscape painting, in which line he is best known. The Berlin Gallery contains a View of the Capuchin Monastery, near Naples, by him (1830).
He died in Hamburg in 1846.