While he served in the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878, he captured the essence of war in Sarajevo, through a number of paintings and drawings, which were published under the name of: "Krieg-Bilder-Skizzen aus dem Bosnisch-Herzegovinischen Occupations-Feldzug, 1878 von der Marschlinie Brod, Sarajevo, Visegrad bis an den Limm" in Wien (1879).