Gert Fabritius was born to German parents in Bucharest, Romania, 1940. He studied at the Art Academy in Cluj, Transylvania, and taught at the Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium in Ostfildern-Nellingen beginning in the late 1970s. He exhibited throughout Europe and the U.S. in both group and solo shows, and received the Special Prize for the Lovis Corinth Prize in 1997 and the Transylvanian Culture Prize in 2012.
His work is included in the permanent collections of:
Villa Merkel; Esslingen, Germany
Kunsthalle Hamburg; Hamburg, Germany
Collection Daimler Benz AG, Stuttgart, Germany
Ministry of Economic Affairs Baden-Württemberg; Stuttgart, Germany
Art Museum Tampere, Finland
Art Museum Bucharest, Romania
Art Museum Königsberg / Kaliningrad, Russia
Municipal Collection Velenje, Slovenia
Gerhard Walz Foundation; Budapest, Hungary
Gilkey Collection, Portland Art Museum; Portland, Ore., USA