1903 | born in Gladbach |
1922/23 | unskilled laborer for landscape cultivation work |
1934 | farmhand on the rural estate of the manufacturing family Holly to Naudorf, a small village near Höhr-Grenzhausen. He paints in his parlor mostly at night. |
1942 | works in the armaments factory in Kassel; after the war returns to Höhr-Grenzhausen |
1967 | thanks to the painter Fred Stelzig first exhibition |
1982 | died in Höhr-Grenzhausen |