Helfried Hagenberg was born in Hannover, Germany, in 1940.
1961–1965 Studies at Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany
1966–2006 Professor at University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf, Germany
1991 Land of North Rhine-Westphalia Award for art printmaking.
2007 onwards Visiting Professor at several Chinese universities among others Tongji University, Shanghai, Tsinghua University, Beijing, and the Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, Xi'an.
Worked in Meerbusch, Germany