1939 | born in Leipzig |
1962-65 | Studied painting at the Stuttgart Art Academy with Heinz Trökes |
1965-66 | Studies in London at the Slade School; scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation |
1970 | Villa Romana Prize, Florence |
1972 | Villa Massimo Prize, Rome |
1982 | Professorship at the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts |
1983 | Hans Molfenter Prize, Stuttgart |
since 1984 | numerous works in public buildings and churches |
since 1991 | Professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (1994-04: Rector) |
1992 | stage design for the classics project at documenta IX: Staatstheater Kassel, opera house, "Der zerbrochene Spiegel" ("The Broken Mirror") |
1997 | Solo exhibitions at the Haus der Kunst in Munich and at the Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart |
1999-2004 | Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, emeritus |
2001 | Awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon |
2004 | Silver Medal for services to the Bavarian constitution |
2006 | Bavarian Order of Merit |
2009 | Special exhibition "Light and Darkness," Stuttgart Art Museum |
2011 | "Space as Image", Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig |
2016/17 | "The Assumption of Spaces and Places" , Weishaupt Art Gallery, Ulm |
| lives in Stuttgart, Munich and Wallhausen (Hohenlohe) |