Between 1952 and 1958 he studied under Professor Heinrich Kirchner at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich.
[2] After this he joined the painters Heimrad Prem, Helmut Sturm and Hans-Peter Zimmer in founding the group SPUR, which in 1959 entered the Situationist International.
That year he participated in the Junge Kunst (Young Art) exhibition in Ulm.
During the rest of the 1960s he continued to exhibit his work in Kassel, Amsterdam, Duisburg, Darmstadt and Wiesbaden.
He lived and worked in Berlin and in Baierbrunn near Munich until the time of his death.