a German painter. History painter, pupil of Munich Academy under Heinrich Hess, Clemens Zimmermann, and Julius Schnorr, then of Olivier; assisted Schnorr in the decoration of the Royal Palace in Munich, and in 1846 Kaulbach, by whom he was much influenced, in that of the Berlin Museum. After his return to Munich, he became member of the Academy in 1862, and professor at the Art School of Industry in 1868.
