1805-1864
German landscape painter, son of a food garden owner in a village near Meissen, who studied under flower painter Johann Samuel Arnhold and Norweigen painter Dahl. Dahl encouraged him to take up landscape painting. In 1824 he was awarded the position of drawing teacher of Queen Hortense of Holland and her son, Louis Napoleon in Arenenberg on Lake Constance. He spent three years with the royal family, wintering in Rome. This position gave him the opportunity for nature study in the Swiss Alps. He lived in Dresden for awhile. He often painted the Swiss and Tyroleon Alps. One of his most important works was "Die Wetterhorner in der Schweitz," (The Weather Horns in Switzerland.), which was engraved by L. Schutz, of the Saxon Art Association. [William Loose, "Resumes Meissen Artists," II. 2, 283, 284].
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