The Second World War turns the young man into an invalid with an amputated leg. However, this makes him unfit for the front line and he is able to fulfill his favourite wish - to begin studying sculpture.
The Second World War turns the young man into an invalid with an amputated leg. However, this made him unfit for the front and he was able to fulfill his favourite wish - to begin studying sculpture. Bad Warmbrunn in Silesia, Dresden and Vienna became his training locations.
After the end of the war, he set up his own business. Born in Berlin, he moved to the small town of Lübz and became a member of the fine arts section of the Kulturbund. When the technical college for applied arts was founded in Wismar in 1950, he became a lecturer there. He took over the management of the school and moved to the new building in Heiligendamm. He continued to teach sculpture, but was also very active in cultural politics. When the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR was founded, he was elected to the board in the Rostock district. In 1956, he gave up his position as director in order to be able to work as an artist again.
