German painter, graphic artist, and muralist. Painter, graphic artist and mural designer (1904 Schmiedeberg to 1988 Dresden), trained as a painter and worked as a decorative painter, from 1924 studied at the Akademie für Kunstgewerbe under Paul Hermann, Max Frey, Georg Erler and Arno Drescher, already working as an advertising designer for numerous companies as a student, at the end of his studies he received a major commission to create a mural for the Hygiene Museum in Dresden, represented at numerous exhibitions in Dresden and Berlin, took part in several exhibitions organised by the Saxon Art Association and the Great German Art Exhibition, soldier in the 2nd World War and prisoner of war, member of the German Army. World War II and prisoner of war, member of the Dresden artists' association "Das Ufer - Gruppe 1947", freelance work from 1947 and creation of several architecture-related works, lecturer at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts from 1957, appointed professor in 1965 and awarded the Martin Andersen Nexö Art Prize, increasingly focussed on the landscapes of the Erzgebirge, the Elbe Sandstone Mountains and the Baltic Sea, source: Vollmer, Eisold "Künstler in der DDR" and AKL.