Dichgans was born in
Berlin,
Germany in 1940 In 1966 she received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation and moved to
New York City, returning to Europe to live in Rome the following year. From 1972 on she lived in Berlin and La Haute Carpénée in the south of France. Between 1984 and 1988, she worked as assistant to
Georg Baselitz at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin. Dichgans died in 2018 in Berlin. ==Public collections==