Joseph Petzl

He has left a collection of drawings documenting his everyday life, love affairs and travels, now in the Münchner Stadtmuseum.

In 1828 he left the academy and began to travel widely, initially going to the "Dürerfest" celebrating Albrecht Dürer in Nuremberg.

In September 1832 Petzl, Fearnley and the Danish genre painter Vilhelm Bendz set off for Rome.

The journey over the Alps was so exhausting that Bendz died in Vicenza, but Petzl and Fearnley reached Rome in November 1832.

There he taught drawing to the daughters of Otto's minister Joseph Ludwig von Armansperg before travelling in 1834 to Istanbul.