since 2000	Professor of drawing and painting at the Philipps-Universität Marburg
1993––2000	Professor at the department of communication design at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hildesheim/Holzminden
1991––1993	Lectures at the Berufskolleg für angewandte Grafik der Johannes Gutenberg-Schule, a vocational institute for applied graphics in Stuttgart
1985––1986	Guest professor at the Institute for Art Education, University of Gießen
since 1982	Works as an independent fine artist
1978––1980	Grant from the Japanese Ministry of Culture (Monbusho) and DAAD to study Japanese painting (Nihonga) and art history. Course of studies at the Tokyo University of the Arts, primarily under Prof. Mutoh Michio (chair for aesthetics), with a concentration on Japanese painting and Namban Bijutsu (the influence of European culture on the Japanese art of the 16th to 19th centuries)
1977––1978	DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Fellowship to study the Japanese language at Tokyo Nihongo Gakko, Tokyo, Japan at Tokyo Nihongo Gakko, Tokyo/Japan
1976––1977	DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Fellowship to study the Japanese language at the University of Bonn
1971––1976	Course of studies under the professors Daudert, Grau, Bachmayer and Von Stockhausen at Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design
1971––1974	Course of studies in aesthetics and art history at the University of Stuttgart
1949	born in Elz in the district of Limburg, Germany