Thomas Lange was born in 1957 in West Berlin. He completed a study of painting at the University of Arts, West Berlin, under Wolfgang Petrick and was a pupil in Herbert Kaufmann’s master class in 1982. Among the awards he garnered are the scholarship of the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff-Stiftung in 1983 and the Primo Premio Suzzara, Mantua, Italy in 2001. He taught at the University of Marburg in 1986 and at the University of Arts, Berlin, from 1988 to 1989. Lange lives and works in Berlin and Italy.