The Austrian artist was born in Linz in 1964 and trained as a lithographer and commercial artist, which he completed in 1986. Building on this followed the extra-occupational, self-taught study of fine arts with a focus on painting and graphics. Since 1992, the artist has been running his own studio in Upper Austria, which has also housed a printing workshop since 2003. In 2005 he started freelance after successfully passing the examination at the Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture.