Karl Friedrich Hermann Lungkwitz was born in 1813 in Saxony. He received his formal training at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden. In 1850, Lungkwitz immigrated to the United States along with his wife, Elise, and his brother-in-law, Richard Petri. After brief stops in New York and West Virginia, the family settled in Fredericksburg near Ft. Martin Scott in the Texas Hill Country. During this period the Lungkwitzs began raising their family while Hermann farmed and painted. In 1864 he moved to San Antonio where he taught painting and worked with Carl Iwonski as a photographer. In addition to Iwonski, he also worked closely with the protraitist William Henry Huddle during the artist’s days in Austin in 1870. The majority of Lungkwitz’s works are landscapes of the Texas Hill Country depicted in the romantic style he learned as a young art student in Dresden. His images of Texas in the 1800s portray the wilderness that was found by the German settlers and are fine examples of his skill as a draftsman.