Born in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Volborth received the Gustaf von Numers Prize 1984 in the XVIth International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences in Helsinki.
Equally comfortable with portraiture, sill-life, and landscape, later in life he branched out to explore abstract art as well.
Volborth married twice; firstly, in 1942,[2] to Rose Ottilie (née Duvernoy,[3][4] from whom he was divorced in the 1968s,) and, second, to a Belgian diplomat, Diana Danys.
[citation needed] He lived the final years of his life with his second wife in Antwerp, Belgium, from whence he established a reputation throughout Europe, with examples of his art in private and corporate collections.
[5] In 1962, Volborth illustrated and published a roll of arms of the knights of the Order living in North America.