diff --git a/CMake/FindNumpy.cmake b/CMake/FindNumpy.cmake
index 8e798cc8f8..f488c4f614 100644
--- a/CMake/FindNumpy.cmake
+++ b/CMake/FindNumpy.cmake
@@ -1,35 +1,25 @@
 #  Variables set by this script
 #  NUMPY_FOUND
 #  NUMPY_INCLUDE_DIR
-
 find_package(PackageHandleStandardArgs)
 
-# numpy dir defined, own numpy deployed in python runtime
-if(DEFINED Numpy_DIR AND EXISTS ${Numpy_DIR})
-  if(EXISTS ${Numpy_DIR}/core/include)
-    set(NUMPY_INCLUDE_DIR  ${Numpy_DIR}/core/include)
-  endif()
-else() #numpy dir not defined
-
-  set(_python ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE})
-  if(UNIX)
-    STRING(REPLACE " " "\ " _python ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE})
-  endif()
+set(_python ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE})
+if(UNIX)
+  STRING(REPLACE " " "\ " _python ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE})
+endif()
 
-  execute_process (
-     COMMAND ${_python} -c "import os; os.environ['DISTUTILS_USE_SDK']='1'; import numpy.distutils; print numpy.distutils.misc_util.get_numpy_include_dirs()[0]"
-     OUTPUT_VARIABLE output
-     OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE
-  )
+execute_process (
+   COMMAND ${_python} -c "import os; os.environ['DISTUTILS_USE_SDK']='1'; import numpy.distutils; print numpy.distutils.misc_util.get_numpy_include_dirs()[0]"
+   OUTPUT_VARIABLE output
+   OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE
+)
 
-  if(DEFINED output AND EXISTS ${output} )
-    set (NUMPY_INCLUDE_DIR ${output})
-  endif()
+if(DEFINED output AND EXISTS ${output} )
+  set (NUMPY_INCLUDE_DIR ${output})
 endif()
 
 FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS(Numpy DEFAULT_MSG NUMPY_INCLUDE_DIR)
 
 MARK_AS_ADVANCED (
   NUMPY_INCLUDE_DIR
 )
-
diff --git a/CMake/PackageDepends/MITK_Numpy_Config.cmake b/CMake/PackageDepends/MITK_Numpy_Config.cmake
index d10c0eaa78..c3e1db29d7 100644
--- a/CMake/PackageDepends/MITK_Numpy_Config.cmake
+++ b/CMake/PackageDepends/MITK_Numpy_Config.cmake
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 if(MITK_USE_Python)
   find_package(Numpy REQUIRED)
   list(APPEND ALL_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES ${NUMPY_INCLUDE_DIR})
+  MESSAGE("NUMPY_INCLUDE_DIR: " ${NUMPY_INCLUDE_DIR})
 endif()