Born in eastern Austria, he witnessed as a young man the horrors of a nation’s suppression, erupting in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He finished his education in art and architecture in Vienna, married and sailed for the Cape of Africa, an adventure that followed his childhood dreams. He had drawn African animals for his art classes, but the time had come to see them in their natural habitat. Meeting a varied facet of people and cultures, working as a draughtsman in an engineering office, as an architect for a cultural center, as a coordinator of craftsmen and professionals, he made good use of his language skills traveling throughout Southern Africa. During a trip to Lesotho, a native artist showed him rock paintings with their stark palimpsest outlines and typified movements of animals and humans. It made a lasting impression on him and influenced his artistic work. His vast collection of drawings and slides had been lost during a change of domiciles, but further studies about the art of the San- people reawakened his dormant artistic longing to express his own art, filling his sketchbooks with drawings and notepads with poetry and prose. While revisiting the capitals of Europe, he sensed the bond of art being borderless and free, reaching across continents into the world. During a visit to Greece, he was accepted into a circle of artists and poets, who encouraged him to continue his art and poetry opening his mind for contemporary Greek poetry. Back in South Africa, he joined a writing and poetry workshop that opened the floodgates of his creativity. He now lives and works in Klosterneuburg-Weidling.