He was born in Bonn in 1960. From 1981 to 1987, he studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf under Günther Uecker. From 1999 to 2003, he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf. In 2001, he participated in the “Transfer” project of the Cultural Secretariat of North Rhine-Westphalia, which promoted cooperation between Israel and North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 2010, he has been a professor of sculpture at the Mainz Academy of Fine Arts.
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He received the Bergisch Art Prize in Solingen in 1993. The following year, he received a working grant from the Bonn Art Fund. The following year, he received the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Fellowship and spent time at the German Study Center in Venice. In 1998, he received project funding from the Art and Culture Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia.