with Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch and Adolf Friedrich Herper at Hohe Karlsschule, Stuttgart (1785-91)
1794 – Dr George Nott funds study in Italy
1795 –affiliates with Bertil Thorvaldsen and German/Scandinavian artists
1810 – commissioned to engrave three plates for August von Humboldt’s Atlas pittoresque (1810)
1825 – works with Nazarene painters on fresco cycle in Villa Massimo, Rome
1834 – publishes Moderne Künstchronik (Modern Art Chronicle, Karlsruhe)
frequent sketching trips to Switzerland and Alps (1791-94); Rome (1795-1812, 1815-39); Vienna (1812-15)
Heroic Landscape with Rainbow, 1805 (Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe). This is the first of four versions, the last of which (1824) is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Schamadribach Waterfall, 1805-11 (Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig)
Holst, Christian von. Joseph Anton Koch, 1768-1839, Ansichten der Natur. Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1989 (in German)