"My paintings grow with an increase of light and they disappear in darkness. Their beginning and their end are interchangeable. They do not represent a permanent condition but show transition." 

Graubner, 1963 (in: "European Avant-garde", Frankfurt 1963). 

"Not every painted picture is a painting – a painting must be read, this however can be learned, it is not self-explanatory. All sorts of experiences go through a metamorphosis by the artist, transferred into the medium of painting."

Graubner, quotation from a discussion, 1975.

Born 1930 in Erlbach, Vogtland.

1947-48 studies at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin (West).

1948-51 studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden.

1954-59 studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Düsseldorf.

1969-95 professor at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg.

1975-98 professor of free painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf. Lives and works in Düsseldorf and on the Island Hombroich, Neuss