Walter Libuda was born in 1950 in Zechau-Leesen (Saxony). He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig from 1973 to 1979 and attended Bernhard Heisig’s master class. From 1979 to 1985 he worked as an assistant at the Academy, before moving to East Berlin. In 1990 he took part in the Venice Biennale. He received the Fred Thieler Prize for painting in 1999 and the Gerhard Altenbourg Prize in 2000. Libuda died in Berlin in 2021.