Background
The son of a carpenter, he took an apprenticeship then began training as an artist, studying at Berlin"s Akademie der Künste and the painting academies in Vienna, Frankfurt am Main and Düsseldorf, spending a few years in each.
The son of a carpenter, he took an apprenticeship then began training as an artist, studying at Berlin"s Akademie der Künste and the painting academies in Vienna, Frankfurt am Main and Düsseldorf, spending a few years in each.
He painted portraits of several noble and civic figures in North Rhine Westphalia, including Franz von Fürstenberg, count Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Freiherr vom Stein and princess Pauline zur Lippe, as well as several families from Münster and Petrus von Hatzfeld, the last abbot of Marienfeld Abbey. He also painted portraits of working-class subjects - an innkeeper"s daughter, a locksmith"s son, a baker to the cathedral chapter, a tutor and a singer in the Prince-Bishop"s Chapel. Several of his paintings have been catalogued (including those by him in the Landesmuseum in Münster), but others are lost or missing.
A large number of images have been cataloged, but other images are missing.