[2] While he was growing up his family relocated, initially to Königsburg and later to Potsdam (near Berlin), and then Charlottenburg.
[1] Between 1911 and 1915 he undertook his artistic studies with Harold Bengen at the Training Academy of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin.
In 1924 he undertook a trip to Paris and turned away from Expressionism, to the point of personally destroying more than sixty of the paintings he had produced between 1920 and 1924.
[1] In 1934 Orlowski's first solo exhibition was presented at the [[Fritz Gurlitt gallery]] [de].
[3] 1945 was also the year in which the war ended, and he started teaching a course on murals and stained glass at the Berlin University of the Arts.