His style was influenced by Makart and is based on an exuberant use of colors, intense sensuality as in Eugène Delacroix. The results are dynamic and voluptuous forms full of energy as in the best works of Peter Paul Rubens where the fast and dense application of colours enchanted the fine and almost transparent skin of the sitters.Popular 19th Century Painting: A Dictionary, Philip Hook, Mark Poltimore 1986 His artistic production, as that of his master Makart, were soon forgotten in favor of the avant-gardes, only in the last decades of the twentieth century their productions of absolute quality have been rediscovered and placed among the great art of the second half of the nineteenth century.Prof. H. Fuchs "Austrian Artists"(in german), Vienna, 1975The Story of the Greatest Nations: A Comprehensive History, Edward Sylvester Ellis, Charles Francis Horne 1913
