Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga -, "Engraver ki te Kingi", ka mau ia ki roto ki tona awheawhe, te wahi i oti ia he akoranga whakangungu whitu-marama; whakairo whakaahua mō kaihoko toi, me te whakarato i etahi whakaahua mo te kaiwhakaputa,. I te tau 1740, me te awhina mai i a Hyacinthe Rigaud, ka mahi takitahi ia. I te tau 1742, ka whakaaetia e Kingi Louis XV kia uru nga Porotetani ki te Académie Royale. Heoi, i te tau e whai ake nei, i whakaae ia ki te tono kia noho hei kaihoahoa marae ki Berlin. I hoki ia ki reira i waenganui o te Pakanga Tuarua o Silesian, a ko tana mahi nui tuatahi ko te hanga mahere rautaki o nga pakanga o Kesselsdorf
me Soor, i whakaputaina i te tau 1746. I taua tau ano, i marenatia ia ki a Dorothée Luise Viedebandt, ko tana papa te Kaiwhakahaere o te Kamupene Tauhokohoko a Ruhia i Berlin. Tērā pea he take i nui ai te utu. E rua tau i muri mai, ka whanau ta raua tama, a August. I puta mai he tamaiti tutu, i etahi wa i hokona huna ai e ia nga mahi a tona papa, a ka pau te moni.