Painter and printmaker Herbert Schneider was born in Bad Griesbach, Germany in 1924. He studied at the State Academy of Fine Art in Stuttgart under Willi Baumeister. His early work was primarily abstract, non-representational, but featured a draw toward bold brushstrokes and linework. After a move to Munich, he found equal influence in the work of Matisse and Bavarian folk art. He held his first solo exhibition at Galerie Deutscher Bucherband in 1961, launching an extensive exhibition career that took him throughout Europe and the United States.