Rolf Biebl was born in Klingenthal (Saxony) in 1951. He studied sculpture at the Weissensee University of the Arts in East Berlin. From 1980 to 1983 he was a master student at the Academy of Arts of the GDR under Ludwig Engelhardt. Together with Clemens Gröszer and Harald K. Schulze he founded the artists’ group NEON REAL in 1981. He was awarded the last Will Lammert Prize of the Academy of Arts (Berlin) in 1992. He received the first prize at the International Symposium of Sculptors in Eubabrunn in 2003. Biebl lives and works in Berlin.