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Engraver, painter, draughtsman. Studied under Fidelio Bruni at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1832–39). Awarded minor silver medals (1835, 1837), a major silver medal (1838) and the title of fourteenth-class artist of history painting (1839). Copied etchings and lithographed portraits of members of the imperial family (1855–56).