- born in Niederglatt near Zürich in 1947
- between 1973 and 1974 trained as a handicrafts teacher at the Kunstgewerbeschule, Zürich, with a focus on pottery
- in 1974 completed an apprenticeship with the stove-fitter F. Gisler
- between 1985 and 1998 visited Tuscany several times, where he worked at the studio of the artist Katharina Sallenbach
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