Albert Wilhelm Lefebre was born in 1873. Lefebre studied from 1889 to 1895 at the Royal Prussian Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf, then from 1895 to 1898 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Carl von Marr. From 1899 to 1903, he studied at the Académie Jullian in Paris. He met Picasso, Matisse and Oskar Moll. The war forced him to return to Germany in 1914 and remain thus in Frankfurt. After 1966, he moved to Italy until his death at the age of 101 years. His art evolves from his stay in Paris to a style clearly influenced by French painting of the vanguards, its previous production to 1914 still falls within the symbolism. He made dioramas for the Senckenberg Museum of Natural History of Frankfurt. In 1899, several of his works, illustrate an important article of the anthropologist Ludwig Wilser which is defining the German spirit and legendary sources in Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration.

Albert Wilhelm Lefebre studied in Frankfurt, Strasbourg and Paris.