Born 1824 in Vienna, where he died in 1883. He studied painting with Waldmüller as a private pupil. The painter August Schaeffer von Wienwald called him a “witty painter of pleasant genre scenes”. He also painted events from Austrian history and religious pictures. From 1854 to 1855 he was apparently in Rome. From 1861 onwards he was a member of the “Genossenschaft bildender Künstler Wiens Künstlerhaus”. There are suggestions that he won a gold medal when the Künstlerhaus exhibited in the Museo Revoltella in Trieste in 1882. He also produced lithographs.
Lit.: Heinrich Fuchs, Die österreichischen Maler des 19. Jahrhunderts, 4, Wien 1974, p. K 12, fig. on p.12; Gerbert Frodl, Wiener Malerei der Biedermeierzeit, Rosenheim 1987, pp. 235, 259.