German painter, draftsman and graphic artist (1894 to 1970 Arnstadt Gera), from 1908 in Gera, here apprenticeship, 1913-18 military and then military service, during the military service in France turn to painting, 1919-30 commercial activity as chocolate wholesalers in Gera and parallel intensive self study of painting, undertook a study trip to France, influenced by his brother Otto Dix and Alfred Ahner and Kurt Guenther, Member of spätdadaistische Association "per per bru (productive-celebrity-hum ox)", 1930 freelance painter, member of the National Association of visual Artists of Germany and in the Thuringian exhibitors Association of Artists, 1942-45 military service in 1945 initiated the artist guild Gera and until 1950 its director,...