• 1842–1844 –
Munich, DE – He is trained as an artist in Munich. • 1844–1849 – Hamburg, DE – He works as a portrait painter in Hamburg. • 1849–1852 – Recife, PE – He travels as a trained artist with a reputation of landscape painter. • 1852 – Germany – The album
Souvenirs de Pernambuco, a collection of chromolitographic works of his trip to Recife, is published. • 1852 – Rio de Janeiro, RJ – He lives in the city of Rio de Janeiro. • 1859–1862 – Rio de Janeiro, RJ. He takes part in the General Exhibition of 1859, 1860, 1862, 1872. • 1865-1872 – Rio de Janeiro, RJ – He joins the painter Henri Nicolas Vinet, is committed to teaching landscape painting in his private workshop. • 1866 – Rio de Janeiro, RJ – He is invited by architect the Carl Friedrich Gustav Waehneldt to be one of the painters for the initial work of Nova Friburgo Palace, later known as the
Catete Palace (now the Republic Museum). • 1873 – Rio de Janeiro, RJ – He finishes the painting
Panorama do Rio de Janeiro, where the Sugar Loaf and the neighborhoods of Gloria, Botafogo,
Lapa, Campo de Santana, Tijuca and
Andaraí appears, causing thus a great sensation. • 1874 – Rio de Janeiro, RJ – He is
knighted with the Imperial Order of the Rose by the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts (AIBA). ==Bibliography==