Hermann Albert was born in 1937 in Ansbach (Bavaria). From 1958 to 1964 he studied at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig. He then went to West Berlin and in 1971 spent a year in Florence on a scholarship at the Villa Romana. From 1974 he taught at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig and worked as a professor there from 1985 to 2001. He participated in documenta 6 in Kassel in 1977 and received the Prize of Nord/LB in 1985. Albert is based in Berlin and Brandenburg.