Klaus Roenspieß was born in 1935 in Berlin. In 1953 he attended evening classes at the Weissensee University of the Arts in East Berlin where he studied until 1954. He continued his training on a self-taught basis. He became associated with the circles of the so-called Berlin School in the 1960s. From 1980 he made regular study trips to Paris. Roenspieß died in 2021 in Berlin.