1891 |
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born in Berlin |
1907 |
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studies with Emil Orlik at the training institute of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts |
1913 |
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changes to the genre painter and portraitist Hugo Freiherr von Habermann at the Academy in Munich |
1914 |
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attends the private Academy Ranson in Paris, becomes a student of Felix Vallotton there |
1914 - 1918 |
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during the First World War he served as a battery commander and airman |
1918 |
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returns to Berlin and rents studio to continue work |
1925 |
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takes part in the group exhibition "Berliner Secession" and exhibits drawings at the Berlin Academy |
1926 - 1930 |
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lives in Provence and travels extensively |
1932 |
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moves to Paris, where he creates his first exclusively abstract works and collages |
1934 - 1939 |
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lives in Greece and exhibits twice in Athens |
1939 |
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return to Germany, beginning of his friendship with Werner Gilles, Günther Franke, Fritz Winter and E. W. Nay |
1940 |
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is banned from painting, moves to Pöcking near Munich |
since |
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begins publications on art including: Essay "On Art Education," "Degenerate Art," "On Abstract Art" (both in 1947), "Turn to Non-Objectivity" in 1953, and "Ornament or Emblem?" 1955 |
since 1950 |
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beginning of his non-figurative work phase; his first purely abstract exhibition is presented at the Art Association in Munich in 1952 |
1961 |
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Guest of honor at Villa Massimo in Rome |
1962 |
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Guest of honor at the Villa Romana in Florence |
since 1963 |
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makes long trips especially to Greece |
23.07.1976 |
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dies in Wetzhausen in Lower Franconia |