Klaus Wittkugel (17 October 1910 – 19 September 1985) was one of the most important commercial and poster artists in the German Democratic Republic (1949–1989).

Berlin was at the centre of a region administered as the Soviet zone of occupation which in October 1949 would be relaunched as the German Democratic Republic.

[1] During these years he lived at an address in the much prized "Intellectuals' District" on the north side of East Berlin, close to "Street 201".

[1] He was a member of the Artistic Advisory Board of the Postage Stamps Commission in the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.

[1] Postage stamp design was important in the German Democratic Republic and it was a subject on which Wittkugel was influential.