Wolfgang Helmut Witschel was born 1911 in Großenhain in Saxonia as son of a stonemason. He studied sculptor on academy of fine arts in Dresden. Wolfgang Witschel was master student of professor Karl Albiker, who himself was a previous master student of the famous Auguste Rodin. The second-world-war interrupted his professional education. As corporal he was fighting on the east frontline deep in Russia. He survived Stalingrad because he was hurt by a bullet in the shoulder and was returned back from frontline to Dresden. After recovery, his left arm however remaining disabled, he continued his studies in Dresden academy.
1946 he leaves the eastern sector with his future wife Ilse Hausner and settles down in Upper Bavaria near to the Tegernsee. They build together an artist house with studios for both artists where most of their artworks have been created.

Wolfgang Witschel’s sculptures are spread over the Upper Bavarian region but some can also be detected all over Germany.

His sculptures being part of the classical modernity are inspired by the oeuvre of Auguste Rodin. Wolfgang Witschel passed a period of abstraction in the years 1970 – 1975, however returned to figural sculptures later on.

One of his sculptures, a seating woman, has been purchased by the Deutsche Pinakothek Munich and is part of the Collection since.

A lifesize leopard is part of the collection of Lothar Günther Buchheim Museum in Bernried near lake of Starnberg.