Gallery artists
Biography
| 1918 | born in Rastenburg |
| 1924 | Moving to West Berlin |
| 1937 | Apprenticeship as a stonemason at the Philipp Holzmann company |
| 1937-1941 | Studies of Sculpture at the Berlin University of Fine Arts |
| 1941 | Master student with Prof. Wilhelm Gerstel Conscription to military service in the navy |
| 1945 | Return from Flensburg to Berlin |
| 1946-1948 | Lectureship at the Burg Giebichenstein, Halle-Saale |
| 1947 | Member of the community of artists “Die Fähre” in Halle-Saale |
| 1948-1951 | Professorship for Plastic arts at the Berlin University of Fine Arts |
| 1950 | Draft for Thälmann monument in Berlin |
| 1952 | Study trip to the Soviet Union |
| 1952-1957 | Working as a freelance sculptor in West Berlin Member of the Association of Visual Artists in Germany |
| 1954-1958 | Head of the Berlin District Association of the Association of Visual Artists in Germany |
| 1956 | Public dispute about the Heine monument |
| 1957-1961 | Professorship at the University of Fine and Applied Arts, Berlin-Weißensee |
| 1961 | Full member of the Berlin Academy of Arts Moving to Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance |
| 1968 | Professorship at the Darmstadt University of Technology |
| 1984 | died in Berlin |
Awards and grants
| 1984 | Award of the Bremen Sculpture Prize |
| 1981 | Award in the competition “Fountain at Wittenbergplatz (Berlin)” |
| 1959 | Award of the National Prize of the GDR |
| 1942-1943 | Rome Prize of the German Academy Villa Massimo |
| 1931 | 1st and 2nd prize in the exhibition “Child and Dog” |
| 1930 | Award at a Youth art competition of the Berlin Zoo |