 He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1883 to 1891 and was a pupil of Siegmund L'Allemand and August Eisenmenger.Afterwards he was noted for paintings of Austrian military history, he received the special school prize for the painting "General Pappenheim" in 1889.In 1891, at the Viennese annual exhibition, he displayed the painting "Baptism of Fire of the Dragoon Regiment Windisch-Graetz in the Battle of Kolin".