After receiving an academy certificate of achievement in 1843 for his sketch of the Elbe River, Lungkwitz spent the next three years honing his artistic skills in Salzkammergut and the Northern Limestone Alps in Bavaria.

[3] Lungkwitz and his brother-in-law Friedrich Richard Petri joined other students in the failed 1849 May Uprising in Dresden,[4] an event at the tail end of the Revolutions of 1848 resulting from the refusal of Frederick Augustus II to recognize a constitutional monarchy.

The area at Crabapple near Grebe's and Max's farm is wildly romantic with many beautiful views.The artist created in great detail in both pencil drawings and paintings.

In addition to Gillespie County vistas, his Texas subjects were the German settlements of New Braunfels and Sisterdale, the Hamilton Pool and West Cave at Round Mountain, Marble Falls, and areas around Austin and San Antonio.

[9] In 1870 he accepted an $1,800 a year[6] appointment in Austin as photographer for the Texas General Land Office[10] under commissioner Jacob Kuechler,[11] brother-in-law to Friedrich Richard Petri.

His daughter Martha Lungkwitz Bickler also received an appointment as Texas General Land Office clerk in an era where few women worked in state government.