- 1933 Born as Helmut Leherbauer in Vienna. 1948-1954 studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and at the Academy of Arts in Stockholm.
- In 1955 he married Lotte Prohohs and moved to Vienna and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in the class of Albert Paris Gütersloh.
- He joined a group of artists who later became known as the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism.
- 1959 exhibited jointly with Rudolf Hausner, Wolfgang Hutter and Anton Lehmden in the Upper Belvedere.
