The young Albert Fürst (1920-2014) was initially only enthusiastic about the small art cosmos that his parents offered him. The father worked as an administrative clerk and was friendly and indifferent to his son's first attempts at painting. Albert Fürst copied postcards, landscapes and images of saints and developed a strong urge to improve. He also practiced the violin and clarinet and was in the dark for a long time about the future of his life.

After graduating from high school, he studied classical painting with Franz Doll and Martin Paatz as a KD member at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1939–1940 , but was soon drafted into the Wehrmacht . At that time he favored the miller's son Rembrandt , who took on the role of a protective demon in the mindless military. Albert Fürst wanted to be able to paint just as well as this one, but on the front in Central Russia only managed to create pen-and-ink drawings of a completely different style. Annelie Fürst, his first wife, recognized the documentary value of these war realisms and preserved them for posterity. In 1945 she was killed in a bomb attack.

At this time Albert Fürst was an American prisoner of war and had switched to atmospheric landscape watercolors. It was not until 1946 that the young widower was able to continue his studies with Wilhelm Schmurr and Heinrich Kamps . A change to the Werkkunstschule Köln brought new impressions. In Paris he supplemented his educational profile with philosophy and Romance studies for a year and came into contact for the first time with pictures by Wols , the founder of Tachism , only to take a state examination in Cologne, shocked by his untimely death in 1951 . In the same year he married Annemarie Francken-Schwann.

From 1953 Albert Fürst worked as an art teacher in the school service, including in the 1960s at the Schloss-Gymnasium Benrath and then at the Gymnasium Koblenzer Straße in Düsseldorf . In 1956/57 he was chairman of Group 53 which broadened his artistic horizons enormously and brought major exhibitions in Düsseldorf, Aachen, Mannheim and Eindhoven. In the late sixties he also worked as a singer, actor and director for the "Rheinische Panto Mini Oper". In 1975 the busy man took over the management of the Düsseldorf artists' association Malkastenand just two years later the association officially opened to women. From 1982 on, after being discharged from the teaching staff, he was able to devote himself entirely to his own art .

On January 30, 2001, Fürst received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.  He lived and worked in Düsseldorf . Like many teachers of the older generation, he could not gain much from the Internet and, despite a considerable body of work, did not operate a platform of his own.