A German painter. one of the earliest and most gifted pupils of Cornelius, was born at Aix-la-Chapelle in 1804. He studied painting at the Düsseldorf Academy, and afterwards went with Cornelius to Munich. After commencing his career at Düsseldorf by painting The Entombment of Christ, and St. Helena with two Angels, he executed the large fresco-painting on the ceiling of the Odéon, representing Apollo among the Shepherds. In 1829 he went to Rome, where he died in 1832. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
