Lazlo Emmerich was born near Hanover, Germany in 1940. His father was killed in the Second World War, so his family moved to Delft, Netherlands, where he lived and was schooled from the age of five.
His talent for painting was discovered at an early age. As a result, in his teens, he was able to embark on an apprenticeship with the noted Flemish painter Otto Van’t Sant.
Despite the many distractions in his early adulthood; writing Beat poetry in the 1950’s, fomenting revolution as a left wing radical in the 1960’s and flirting with large scale steel structure in the 1970’s,...