Career
He received his first art instruction from 1829 to 1831 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. However, he became dissatisfied with the quality of the teaching there and went to study with Philipp Veit at the Städel Art Institute in Frankfurt, where he remained until 1838. During this time, he produced many altar and devotional paintings.
From 1838 to 1843 he made several study trips to Italy.
At that time, they moved to Koblenz, then to Mainz in 1860. He executed commissions for many churches, including the Basilica of Saint Castor in Koblenz and the Mainz Cathedral.
Numerous images of saints were created for the "Verein zur Verbreitung religiöser Bilder" (Association for the Dissemination of Religious Images). Completely oblivious to new trends in art, his work was increasingly ignored.