Painter, lecturer and writer, born in Offenburg, Baden, Germany. After World War I military service was a prisoner of war in Scotland. He then studied mathematics and philosophy at Universities of Basle, Freiburg and Berlin. For most of the 1920s he lectured in mathematics and as a journalist was concerned with advocating school reform. Being a Socialist, he decided to leave Germany in 1933 and travelled widely, began painting and was converted to Roman Catholicism. Settled in Britain in 1935 and after World War II internment in Canada returned to Britain in 1945, in 1949 settling at Cotllwyd, Dyfed, where he founded the Cotllwyd Group, a group that went on to show in England and Germany. Took part in SWG, WAC and Royal National Eisteddfod mixed shows and had many solo exhibitions, including Wilton and Drian Galleries, Albany Gallery in Cardiff and abroad.