Works
- Christ's Entry into Jerusalem (1824), in the Marienkirche.(destroyed through Allied bombing, Palm Sunday 1942).
- Christ's Agony in the Garden (1835), in the great hospital, Hamburg.
- Lo Sposalizio (1836), Muzeum Narodowe, Poznań, Poland.
- The Triumph of Religion in the Arts (1840), in the Städel Institute, Frankfurt.
- Pietà (1846), in the Marienkirche, Lübeck.
- The Incredulity of St. Thomas (1851), first in the possession of Beresford Hope, London, now in the Schäfer collection, Schweinfurt, Germany.
- The Assumption of the Madonna (1855), in Cologne Cathedral.
- Christ Delivered from the Jews (1858), tempera, originally on a ceiling in the Quirinal Palace. It is a commission from Pius IX, and a direct attack on the Italian temporal government, therefore later covered by a canvas adorned with Cupids, and now hanging in front of the Aula delle Benedizione in the Vatican .
- Baptism 1862-64, Neue Pinakothek, Munich
- Drawings for the frescoes for the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul in Đakovo (1867–1869).
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