born Fürth, 10. Oct 1882
died Dießen am Ammersee, 07. Feb 1958
Attended the Nuremberg School of Applied Arts, 1903-07 studied at the Munich Academy under Wilhelm von Ruemann and Erwin Kurz. 1903-11 based in Munich, since 1911 teacher at the vocational high school in Nuremberg. 1925 awarded the title of "Professor of Fine Arts" by the Free State of Bavaria. 1937 and 1938 participation in the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich. Member of the "Nuremberg Secession". His public commissions included the national eagle of the SS barracks in Nuremberg in 1937. 1940 design of the quadriga for the central wing of the Congress Hall in Nuremberg. Lit.: Gray Zones. Nuremberg Artists in National Socialism. Edited by Andrea Dippel, Nuremberg 2022, p. 330.
Sculptor of a moderate modernism, member of the Nuremberg “Secession”. His style dissociated itself from the tradition and tended to the type of monumentalism which developed between the wars.
Style: Early Modernism
Period: 20th c.