1932 | Born in Goch/Lower Rhine |
1952-54 | studies with Georg Muche in Krefeld, his assistant from 1954 to 1958 |
from 1958 | teaching at the Staatliche Werkkunstschule in Kassel |
since 1961 | at the Werkkunstschule in Wuppertal |
1975 | professorship at the Academy of Arts in Karlsruhe |
1976 | Professorship at the Art Academy Stuttgart |
1961 | Scholarship of the Cultural Circle in the Federal Association of German Industry |
1969 | Graphic Prize for Engraving No. 53 at the VII Mostra Internazionale di Bianco e Nero in Lugano and Eduard von der Heydt Prize of the City of Wuppertal |
1970 | First prize for critical graphics (Zille Prize), Hanover |
1974 | Graphic Prize of the World Print Competition of the College of Arts and Crafts in cooperation with San Francisco Museum of Art |
1977 | Participation in the documenta 6 in Kassel |
1991 | Ferdinand Langenberg Culture Prize d. City of Goch |
2009 | died in Stuttgart |