Later, he attended the regular art classes, where he studied under Friedrich Matthäi and Ferdinand Hartmann.

Together with his brother, Edmund Hottenroth (who would later become a well-known landscape painter), he took a trip through the Giant Mountains and other areas of Bohemia.

From 1828 to 1830, a scholarship enabled them to continue their studies in France (where he was influenced by Ary Scheffer and Horace Vernet), then Italy.

[3] In Rome, they became part of the circle of German painters there, taking lessons from Joseph Anton Koch and Johann Christian Reinhart.

He returned to Germany in 1843, living in Hamburg with his new wife, followed by a second stay in Italy from 1851 to 1853, then back to Dresden.