Henning Kürschner was born in 1941 in Wernigerode in the Harz region (Saxony-Anhalt). From 1961 he took university courses in art history and German studies in Mainz and Tübingen and then painting at the University of the Fine Arts in West Berlin. He was a member of the Grossgörschen 35 artists’ cooperative gallery. Among the awards he has received are a scholarship at the Villa Massimo and the Fred Thieler Prize for painting. From 1981 to 2007 he taught as professor at the University of Arts, Berlin. Kürschner lives and works in Berlin and Potsdam (Brandenburg).