Kammala wannan jumla: Da alama ya kasance dalibi ne mara son komai, amma ya nuna sha'awar zane-zane don haka, a 1845, an sa shi a cikin Kwalejin Fine Arts, Vienna don ɗan gajeren lokaci, sannan ya yi karatu a keɓe tare da Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller da Carl Rahl. Daga 1847 zuwa 1855, kafin ya kammala karatunsa, ya zama jami'i a Rundunar Sojojin Austro-Hungarian kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin mai kula da shi a cikin
Yaƙin neman zaɓe na Hungary.