1935

Born in Freiburg Breisgau, youth and school years in Switzerland and trained as a silversmith and Hammer Workers

1960 - 1964  

Lecturer for calligraphy and Visual Arts at the College of Fine Arts, Hamburg

1964 - 1968  

Employees at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden

1974 - 1999  

Professor of painting at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf

1993

Member of the Academy of Arts Berlin

1998

Establishment of the 'Museum in the bush' in Namibia. Since then, the museum director and project Etaneo