Born in Europe (Eastern Prussia) in 1931, Ochs came to Canada in 1952. He then studied in Paris at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere under sculptor Ossip Zadkine (1956), and in Hamburg under Hans Ruwoldt (1957). Ochs exhibited at the Seattle Art Museum (1959), the National Gallery of Canada (1964) and was a founding member of the Sculptors’ Society of B.C. He exhibited at the first outdoor exhibition of BC sculpture at UBC.