He was born in Augsburg on 9/3/1910. He was a descendant of an old, 17th-century aristocratic family of Augsburg. He studied under Alfred Roller, Oskar Strnad and Max Reinhard. In 1945, he became principal set designer at the Vienna Volksoper. During the period 1945-1958, he designed the sets for numerous operas and operettas, including: Carmen, Rustic Chivalry [Cavalleria rusticana], Don Carlo, Faust, Hänsel und Gretel, The Girl of the West [La fanciulla del West], Pagliacci, A Masked Ball [Un ballo in maschera], A Thousand and One Nights [Tausend und eine Nacht], Boccaccio, The Beggar Student [Der Bettelstudent], The Bandits [Les Brigands], The Beautiful Helen [La Belle Hélène]. For the GNO, he supervised the design of the sets for the production of A Night in Venice [Eine Nacht in Venedig] by Johann Strauss II (1962/63). In 1946, he was actively involved as co-founder of the Festival of Bregenz (Austria, Lake Constance). He was a professor (1935-1996) and director (1977-1983) of the "Max Reinhard" seminar of Vienna. In 1964, he participated in the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck. He died in Vienna on 7/1/1996.