Peter Schubert was born in Dresden in 1929. He studied painting at the Akademie der Künste in Dresden from 1947 on. He left Dresden in 1949 in favor of Stuttgart to study under Willi Baumeister there starting in 1950. From 1952-53 he studied under Fernand Léger in Paris. He then studied under Hans Uhlmann at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin from 1954-57. From 1957 onwards, Schubert worked as artist. Schubert died in Berlin in 2021.