Karl Heinz Wagner was born on 24.5.1925 in Komotau / Sudetenland. Years of apprenticeship and journeyman at the church painters Brüder Hennlich. After the expulsion in 1946 he came via Schwanebeck at Halberstadt and Offenbach / M. to Dietzenbach in Hesse. In 1947 he studied for one semester with the animal painter Heinz Rammelt and in 1958/59 three semesters at the Städelschule Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Frankfurt / M. with Walter Hergenhahn. From 1970 to 1984 he was a lecturer at the adult education center in Dietzenbach. From 1982 to 1988 Wagner was the first chairman of the Confederation of Free and Applied Arts in Darmstadt. Numerous exhibitions at home and abroad have made him known.
Wagner received in 1978 the Cultural Award of the district of Offenbach, in 1985 the Culture Prize of the city of Dietzenbach and the Adalbert Stifter Medal of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft and Komotauer Ehrenbrief with decorations. 1986 Goldplakette der Accademia d'Italia "Premio d`Italia", 1988 Award of the Heussenstamm Foundation of the City of Frankfurt / M., 1994 European Gold Plaque, the European Cultural Award Baden-Baden, 2000 Honorary member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists in Frankfurt / M, 2nd prize at the third major art exhibition in Bürstadt (Künstlerverein Bürstadt).
On 20.2.2003 Karl Heinz Wagner received the highest honor of the country Hessen, the Landesehrenbrief. Source: Website KH Wagner.