Nabo Gass was born in 1954 in Ebingen, Baden-Württemberg. After training as a glass painter, he studied at the Wiesbaden Free Art School and the Berlin University of the Arts in the 1970s. In the mid-1980s, he founded the "Atelier Transparent" (Transparent Studio), later the "Uferatelier" (Uferatelier) in Wiesbaden, where he currently lives and works. Here, he creates free-form and architecturally-related glass works.

To translate his ideas into glass, Nabo has developed new, patented techniques for glass design: in 1989, photo-accurate sandblasting; in 1994, stained-glass painting with ground colored glass; in 2000, he received the Glastec Düsseldorf Innovation Award for his splinter technique for designing glass facades in conjunction with photovoltaics.

In 2011/12, he designed a glass high-bay warehouse that is energetically self-sustaining. The folded solar membrane he designed, made of photovoltaic modules and crash glass, achieves such high energy efficiency that the building received a gold certification from the DGNB (German Sustainable Building Council).

In 2017, he again designed an ensemble of glass company buildings.

His works in public spaces can be seen at the German Museum of Stained Glass in Linnich, the Rüsselsheim Municipal Theater, the Schorndorf City Hall, the Ernsting Foundation Glass Museum in Coesfeld, the Malden Senior Citizens' Facility and the Roermond Courthouse in the Netherlands, the St. Stephan's Parish Hall in Mainz, the IGM building in Hanover, and in Wiesbaden, the Wall of Fame in the Kurhaus Winter Garden, the columns at Kureck, and the stele in front of the Wiesbaden Literature House on Wilhelmstraße.