Background
He was instructed in art by his father and by Mannlich, but he afterwards studied the works of Claude Lorrain and Karel Du Jardin.
He was instructed in art by his father and by Mannlich, but he afterwards studied the works of Claude Lorrain and Karel Du Jardin.
He travelled by himself through the picturesque regions of Bavaria, Switzerland, and France. He died at Munich in 1852. The following works by him are in public collections: Berlin.
Gallery.
A Forest Road. 1817. Cassel. Gallery. Two Waterfalls. Munich.
Pinakothek. View of the Walchensee, in the Mountains of Upper Bavaria, Waterfall, with a Huntsman, Landscape and Mill near Pasing, and Landscape in the Tyrol during a Thunderstorm.
In 1803 he became Restorer, and in 1808 Inspector of the Royal Gallery at Munich, and was subsequently elected a member of the Academies of Hanau, Vienna, Berlin, and Munich.
