Following graduation, he made an extensive study trip throughout Switzerland, then returned to Hamburg.
There, he worked as a freelance artist and founded a "Schule für angehende Maler und Bildhauer" (School for aspiring painters and sculptors), where he taught "modern art".
He was a member of the Hamburger Künstlerverein von 1832 [de], a progressive artists' association.
He held numerous smaller exhibitions at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
He also wrote several small textbooks, notably: Elements of drawing based on physical objects for teachers and for self-teaching as well as for technical educational institutions (1857), and Preliminary exercises on the elements of drawing based on physical objects for children aged 7-10 years (1868) Media related to Friedrich Heimerdinger at Wikimedia Commons