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