After an accident he studied Business for a few years in Italy before changing his career to making art.
His work was influenced by romantic conceptual artists such as Bas Jan Ader and his teacher at the Royal College of Art, Richard Wentworth.
While studying and living in London, Sachsalber mostly made photos, video works, drawings and performances.
Sachsalber was known for his intense performative works, that often balanced on physical exhaustion, such as eating a poisonous mushroom, spending 24 hours with a cow in a room or cutting down a large tree by hand.
The performance caused a huge amount of press coverage and online outrage by those not considering the work art.