Born in Arnsberg

Studies at the Kunstakademie (Academy of Arts) Düsseldorf with Prof. Franz Eggenschwiler

Meisterschüler (master student)

Studies at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste (Public Academy of Fine Arts) Stuttgart with Prof. Rudolf Schoofs

Lectureship at the Fachhochchule (college of higher education) Dortmund

Artist group „Die Weissenhofer“ with Jörg Mandernach and Uwe Schäfer (until 2001 with Sebastian Rogler, until 2003 with Thomas Raschke)

Lectureship at the Universität Dortmund

Stand-in professorship at the Fachhochchule (college of higher education) Darmstadt

Lives and works in Berlin

Grants and awards

Joseph-Fassbender-Award drawing and graphic-design, Brühl

Grant Künstlerdorf Schöppingen; grant for graduated students by the federal state Baden-Württemberg; GWK-Award for supporting art, Münster

Grant of the Kunstfonds e.V., Bonn

Casa Baldi Grant, Olevano Romano; Barkenhoff-Grant, Worpswede

Foreign exchange scholarship for a stay in Paris by the federal state Nordrhein-Westfalen

Albert Stuwe-Award for drawing