In 1884, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich,[1] where he studied with Gabriel Hackl and Alexander von Liezen-Mayer.
He created several works for the Deutsches Museum in Munich; including a Roman aqueduct for the hydraulic engineering display, a Medieval herb garden and the flight of a zeppelin (1909).
In Stuttgart, for the "Ketterer", a restaurant at a brewery, he produced a series of fourteen large paintings on the history of Swabian emigration.
As a watercolorist, he produced numerous landscape paintings and maritime scenes, poster designs, and postcard motifs.
His wife, Hermine, was the eldest daughter of the actress and writer, Wilhelmine von Hillern.