Bernd (Bernhard) Becher

born in Siegen, 20 August 1931, served an apprenticeship as a decorative painter in Siegen, then studied painting and lithography at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Stuttgart (1953-56) and typography at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf (1957-61). There in 1959 he met Hilla Wobeser who had trained as a photographer in Potsdam and, after a period as an aerial photographer in Hamburg, had moved to Dusseldorf in 1957. They married in 1961.