Aquatint, titled "Alte Hafenmauer" lower left, signed in lead and dated 1980, sheet approx. 31 x 36 cm, from 1962 worked as an offset printer in Berlin and Potsdam and was a student in the Caputh painting circle with Magnus Zeller, 1964-69 studied graphics at the Kunsthochschule Berlin with Arno Mohr, Werner Klemke and Klaus Wittkugel, 1969-70 aspirant for graphics at the Kunsthochschule Berlin, 1973-77 master class at the Academy of Arts with Werner Klemke, awards including 1991 Käthe Kollwitz Prize of the AdK, 1999 Ferdinand von Quast Medal from the Berlin State Monuments Office