Career
In 1794 he went to Berlin, where he was engaged in miniature painting and as a teacher of drawing. In 1802 he visited Paris, and the study of the galleries there first induced him to attempt painting in oil. He died at Potsdam on 10 September 1850.
One of his most famous pictures is The Descent from the Cross, the altar-piece at the Garrison Church in Potsdam.
In the Berlin Gallery is a State Entry painted by him.