Since his youth he was taught drawing and painting by his father, who was also a painter and sculptor and studied in the forties at the academy of arts in Frankfurt ("Städelschule")
1982 -1987
Diploma in Psychology at the University of Trier
1985 -1987
Studied drawing and painting techniques with the freelance artist Udo Babusch in Trier
1988 -1989
Marketing and advertising planning at an international advertising agency
1990 -2008
Marketing and sales of complex software technologies for international IT service companies and associated longer stays abroad, including one year in the USA
2008 -2011
Studied at the evening school of the State Academy of Fine Arts in Frankfurt under Vroni Schwegler and Reinhard Kohler
2008
Summer Academy of the "Städelschule Frankfurt".
Seit 2009
Freelance artist in Limburg an der Lahn
2009 – 2010
Various seminars at the "Kunstakademie Bad Reichenhall"
From 2009 until today regular study and work stays with the well-known Danish landscape painter Ulrik Möller in his studio in Berlin
In the meantime representated by various galleries in Germany, currently self-marketing in own production gallery as well as being represented by the "Gallerie auf der Treppe" in Limburg/Lahn.