Nikolaus Webern was born in Austria. He studied production design from Professor Erich Wonder at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria. He has designed productions for Staatsoper Hamburg, the Theater an der Wien in der Kammeroper, Neue Oper Wien, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Staatstheater Saarbrücken, the Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Theater Regensburg, Landestheater Coburg, the Bregenz Festival, and the Verdi Festival.