Austrian painter of the 20th century. Was born in Czernowitz/Buwokina, studied from 1926 to 1931 at the Academy of Fine Arts with Ferdinand Andri and Karl Fahringer. In 1946 co-founder of the artist group Der Kreis, from 1958 member of the Vienna Secession. Works of the interwar period stylistically to Expressionism, influences of Richard Gerstl and Edvard Munch. From the 1940s, he turned to representational abstraction and later to the influences of Cubism and Surrealism, in the circle of Edgar Jené. Painted mainly portraits, landscapes and still lifes. Influenced by Paul Cezanne, in his late work he dealt with Tachism. 1979 exhibition at the Austrian Gallery Belvedere.