Axel Dick, an important representative of light art and geometric abstraction, was born in Dortmund in 1935. In 1959 he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, and completed the state exam for art education. By 1962, Axel Dick had worked as a trainee. He then taught at the high school Brunswick Raabe School. In 1968-1970 he taught at the local College of Fine Arts and the debate at the National Study Seminar until 1997.

Axel Dick's first trip to New York in 1965 led him to create works of geometric abstraction. In strict, black and white grid and parallel line images quickly followed his first artistic light objects. On the second trip to the United States in 1967 color became increasingly important in his work, which was in the technique of silkscreen breaking the web. In the late 1960s he created light fields and terraced properties with laser lights and indicators, as well as significant serigraphic works.

In the 1970s, Axel Dick began working on paintings in acrylic and silkscreen prints that were dedicated to colored light trails in the room. A shock inhibited the creation of Axel Dick in 1977: Not less than 25 of his paintings were stolen at the Berlin Radio Show. The fact was never explained. Axel Dick ran from the art world now largely alleviated.

Only in 1989, did he begin making trips back to the US, working on new works. During this time arose textile images and Aztec-looking, figurative mark compositions. Works by Axel Dick appeared from 1963 in numerous exhibitions, and are now kept in Ingolstadt about Museum of Concrete Art or the Linz New Gallery.

Axel Dick, was the winner of the bronze medal of the Europe Prize of painting, Ostend (1969), and in 1984, a founding member of the Museum of Photography Brunswick He died in 2006 in Braunschweig.