Claudia Busching was born in Munich in 1954. From 1976 to 1981 she studied painting at the University of Arts, West Berlin, under Hann Trier, with whom she also took her master class. Various scholarships enabled her to work as a freelance artist in Berlin and Bonn in the 1980s, as well as a residence at Casa Baldi in Olevano Romano near Rome in 1988. Busching lives and works in Berlin and Rome.