August Endell was born in Berlin in 1872. He studied philosophy, psychology and aesthetics and turned to architecture and the decorative arts as a self-taught artist in 1892. From 1918, he was director of the State Academy of Arts and Crafts in Breslau. He died in Berlin in 1925.

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Freely invented ornaments that evoke deliberate associations with marine animals and plants form the shapes of the approximately five metre high relief, which once - until 1980 - adorned a sanatorium in Wyk on the island of Föhr. After it had to be removed due to renovations, it found a new home on the fassade of the Kunsthalle zu Kiel in 1988.