Josef Dering was a German painter, sculptor, mosaicist, art educator and commercial artist. He was born in Munich, 1910 and died 1999 in Dakar.[1] For a long time he lived in Eichenau, a municipality in the district of Fürstenfeldbruck, in Bavaria, Germany. There he designed the village's logo. He also configured an elementary's school facade. To honour of his this school was named after him.[2]