Born in Munich in 1961, he grew up in Gauting and, after graduating from high school, trained in computer science in Munich. Studied architecture in Kaiserslautern and Kassel from 1983 to 1989, then worked as an independent architect, designer and artist in Kassel for 20 years.
Since 2010 full-time freelance artist; in his painting he deals with the transitions and interfaces between abstraction and representationalism and the associative mechanisms in the reception of non-objective representations. Solo and group exhibitions in Munich and Kassel.
Lives with his family in Kaufungen near Kassel since 1998.