He was born to Шаблон:Ill, an engraver and art professor, who provided him and his two siblings with their primary education. At the age of sixteen, he decided that he too would become an engraver. In pursuit of that goal, he went to the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, where he took lessons in perspective from Шаблон:Ill. He also spent many evenings in self-study at the Skulpturensammlung.
A serious illness, from 1812 to 1813, prevented him from pursuing his career. No sooner had he recovered, than he found himself conscripted for the Befreiungskriege against Napoleon. Altogether, he lost three years to these interruptions.
In 1822, he began a journey, on foot, to Rome. During his stay there, he became an honorary member of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma. He returned to Dresden in 1828.
He found employment as a drawing teacher at the Dresden Academy in 1830. His notable students there included Шаблон:Ill and Georg Heinrich Busse. After his death, he was succeeded by Carl Gottlieb Peschel.
He never married, and had no known children.
Sources
Christian Ernst Stölzel in Neuer Nekrolog der Deutschen, #15, 1837, Part I, Weimar 1839. pg.406
