Wood, carved and painted, bust, signed on the bottom, dated 1981 and numbered (342), H approx. 33.5 cm, trained as a wood and stone sculptor in Münster, 1924-1926 attended the Kunstgewerbeschule in Dortmund, then studied in Berlin-Charlottenburg and Dresden, among others with Georg Wrba, worked as a freelance artist near his birthplace until 1935, he created the head of Christ, which attracted a great deal of attention, declared degenerate art by the National Socialists, returned to Dresden in 1946 and concentrated his work on sacred art and church interior design, In 1980 he was elected a member of the Academy of Arts in Parma in Italy, since May 1985 he has been an honorary citizen of his home town of Ascheberg
