Wolfgang Troschke (born 1947 in Helmarshausen, Germany) studied at the Werkkunstschule Münster, Germany, from 1966­ to 1970, and was a printmaking professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Münster from 1978 until his retirement in 2009. He has received numerous international prizes for his prints, and has exhibited extensively in solo and group shows in Germany and elsewhere in Europe.
 
In the early 1970s Troschke worked as a master printer for renowned German artists of Art Informel, a European abstract painting movement of the 1940s and 1950s characterized by an improvisational approach and particularly gestural techniques. Post-war artists such as Fred Thieler, Gerhard Hoehme, Bernhard Schultze, and Walther Stöhrer, greatly influenced Troschke in his own artistic activity through gestural abstraction. For Troschke, art is “an expression of absolute individualism.” Artistic experiment and the development of his own language of form has continuously shaped his work, and many of his signature motifs recur over and over again in his paintings and works on paper. In his prints, Troschke makes use of numerous techniques, such as etching, lithography, woodcut, and silkscreen, often combining multiple print mediums and hand-coloring in a single work.