At first active as portrait painter, he was appointed a royal painter of the Grand Duke of Baden and dedicated himself to depicting Bavarian and Swabian peasant life.
After one year at that school under the landscape painter Virgil Macey Williams, he continued his art education at the Royal Academy in Munich where he spent six years.
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He then travelled to Munich to study the works of Zimmermann and Schnorr von Carolsfeld and for further studies in Paris and Drolling.