Career
His long and distinguished career has included other works, including other memorials. Born in Würzburg, his family moved to the Bavarian community of Landshut when he was six. In the years after World World War II he studied art at the Kunstakademie München (Munich School of Art), graduating in 1952.
Nine years later he moved to Ganslberg, a farming community outside Landshut where he lives and works on a horse farm.
Since 1964 he has been a professor of art at the Technical University of Munich.