After studying at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Aachen and the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf the artist made his first abstract work in 1950. Two years before, at the age of 33, Hermanns had already founded the group "Junger Westen" together with Gustav Deppe, Thomas Grochowiak, Emil Schumacher, Heinrich Siepmann and Hans Werdehausen in Recklinghausen…