He studied under Gröger in Hamburg and under Karl Ferdinand Sohn at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
“Braggart in Sailor"s Tavern” (1841)
“Offer of Marriage in Normandy” (1842, Leipzig Museum)
“Drowned Son of the Pilot” (1844, Ravené Gallery, Berlin)
“Poacher Before Justice of the Peace” (1847), his largest painting
“Prairie Fire” (1851, Kunsthalle, Hamburg)
“The Son"s Last Letter” (1852, Kunsthalle, Bremen)
“Middy"s Sermon” (1853, Cologne Museum)
"Drowned Son of Fisherman"(Kunstpalaast,Dusseldorf.