Artist Max Uhlig was born in 1937 in Dresden. Uhlig lived in Helfenberg (Dresden) from 1951 to 1956. Uhlig studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts under Hans Theo Richter and Max Schwimmer. From 1961 to 1963 Uhlig was a Master student of Hans Theo Richter at the German Academy of Arts Berlin. Uhlig did freelance work since 1964.

Since 1990 Uhlig was a member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund and a founding member of the Saxon Academy of Arts. From 1995-2002 Uhlig was a Professor of Painting and Graphics at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.

Max Uhlig was awarded several national and international prizes, including the Käthe Kollwitz Prize of the GDR Academy of Arts in 1987, 2nd Prize at the 21st International Biennale of São Paulo in 1991, and the Gold Medal at the 10th Norsk Internasjonal Grafikk Biennale Fredrikstad, the Hans Theo Richter Prize and the Saxon Order of Merit in 1998, the Art Prize of the State Capital of Dresden in 2003 and the Art Prize of the Artists on the occasion of the Great Art Exhibition of North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf in 2006.

Max Uhlig was born 1937. Max Uhlig studied under Theo Richter and Max Schwimmer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden in the 1950s. In the early 1960s, he was a master student of Hans Theo Richter at the Deutsche Akademie der Künste in Berlin.

Before devoting himself to painting, he worked almost exclusively as a graphic artist until the mid-1970s. From 1995 to 2002, Uhlig was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden.

His works are regularly on display in overview exhibitions on the art of the GDR and are part of major museum collections, including the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. (cko)