Visiting the Belvedere Palace's picture gallery weekly with his mother fostered his creativity, motivating him to experiment with pen and pencil at home.

[2] As conscription spread in Vienna during preparations against the 1789 French Revolution, his mother, who had lost two sons to war, helped Anton avoid the draft by fleeing.

The youth crossed the Bavarian border unchallenged, journeyed through several states to Brabant, met his father's old friend who gave him artistic training, and then continued to Brussels in 1790.

[8] Under Prestel's guidance and through diligent study of old paintings and nature, he quickly rose to become a master of the Middle Rhine, gaining independence in his profession.

[2] Focused on the scenic beauty of the Frankfurt area, Radl's landscapes reflected the style of 18th-century artists such as Christian Georg Schütz and Johann Andreas Benjamin Nothnagel.

[11] Anton Radl visited the Danube region in 1816, contributing drawings for Friedrich Wilmans bookshop's engravings of the German Confederation's free cities and scenes from northern Germany.