Der englische Fischer

1823–1836 · Lugar de trabajo

Düsseldorf

1836

Success at the Cologne exhibition

He achieves success at an exhibition in Cologne, where one of his paintings is bought by Prince Frederick, Governor of the Rhine Province.

after 1836

A studio in Frankfurt with Rethel's help

After a tour of Bavaria and the Tyrol he settles in Frankfurt and, with the help of Alfred Rethel, opens a studio at the Städelsche Kunstinstitut. Other accounts say he left Düsseldorf as early as 1835, moving first to Munich.

1836 · Lugar de trabajo

Tyrol

1836–1837 · Lugar de trabajo

Munich

c. 1836 – 1846

Ten years of study and wandering

For the next ten years he devotes himself to perfecting his craft and travels widely: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, southern and northern Germany, the Tyrol and Italy, producing many interesting works and painting portraits too. He often travels with his brother Oswald: both become regular visitors to Ostend, and from their initials they are known as the “Alpha and Omega” of landscape painters.