Sculptor, Painter and Professor for Fine Arts
He lives in Aachen.
Born in Riesa/Elbe (Saxony) Germany, in 1929.
He studied sculpture and painting in Dusseldorf.
1949 first engagement as educator for youth and adults appointed by the city of Dusseldorf
since 1950 working as sculptor and painter, private and public orders, art design of churches and hospitals, design of streets and places, fountains included
1955 state examination as arts and crafts educator
1958 appointment as lecturer for fine arts at the Academy of Remscheid
1960 appointment as lecturer at the former Aachen Pedagogic-University,
later professor for fine arts and their didactic
1962 invention of the negative-form- and casting procedure for metals, which makes possible most complicated forms without welded seams, which cannot be cast by other procedures
1966 / 1971 tv-film shown in WDR III television / tv-film shown in Bavarian television
since 1986 professor for plastic design at Aachen University of Applied Sciences, faculty for design
1992-1994 dean of the faculty for design at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences
since 1995 free working as sculptor and painter