(b Hamburg, 28 Jan 1926; d nr Kiel, 15 June 1984). German painter. Towards the end of his apprenticeship as a lithographer (1943), he had a formative experience while viewing Wilhelm Leibl’s Three Women in Church (Hamburg, Ksthalle; for illustration see LEIBL, WILHELM), a picture whose realism exerted a lasting influence on him. After service in World War II he studied from 1946 to 1949 under Willem Grimm (b 1904) at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg. He spent two terms on a scholarship at the Kungliga Akademi för de Fria Konsterna, Stockholm. In 1951, as an independent artist, he moved to Grossensee in Schleswig-Holstein, where he lived with his family for the rest of his life.