Painter and copper engraver of Austrian descent. His first teachers were his father and the painter Van Roy. From 1741, he was a pupil of J. van Schuppen at the Vienna Academy. He worked mostly in Austria, but he appeared in Bohemia and Hungary. A highly productive artist of rococo, he painted altar-pieces and frescoes under the influence of Ricci, Piazetta and Pittoni, and followed Austrian traditions, too.

A major work of his early period was a series of frescoes for the parish church of Sümeg (1757-59) followed by frescoes for the Erdõdy-castle and its chapel (1763), allegoric frescoes for the Féltorony-castle (1765), frescoes of the Gyõr cathedral (1772, 1781), the dome of the Vác cathedral (1774) , frescoes of St. Stephen for the parish church in Vác (1781-82) and frescoes of the episcopal see in Szombathely (1783). The frescoes of the chapel of the girls' school in Eger show the calmness of his late period (1792-93).

Of his works abroad, mention must be made of frescoes for the piarist church in Vienna (1752-53), the church in Pöltenberg (1765), the Innsbruck residence (1775-76), the frescoes in Klosterbruck and Mühlfrauen, and frescoes for the library of the Strachow monatesry in Prague, etc. Sketches for "Golgotha" and "Holy Trinity" are in the possession of the Museum of Fine Art, Budapest.