| 1883 |
born in Döbeln |
| 1897-1904 |
During his school visit to the Realgymnasium in Chemnitz, begins his friendship with Karl Schmidt-Rottluff |
| 1904/1905 |
Studied architecture at the Technical University in Dresden, where he met Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Fritz Bleyl |
| 1905 |
works as a draughtsman in the architectural office of Wilhelm Kreis |
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Founding of the Brücke artists' association together with Fritz Bleyl, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff |
| 1906 |
Renting a shoemaker's shop in Dresden-Friedrichstadt, where the artist friends set up a studio together |
| 1907 |
Summer stay with Karl Schmidt-Rottluff in Dangast and Dangastermoor |
| 1909 |
Trip to Italy |
| 1909-1911 |
in summer with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Max Pechstein at the Moritzburg lakes |
| 1911 |
Marriage to Milda Frieda Georgi in Berlin |
| 1912 |
Participates with the other Brücke artists in the Internationale Sonderbund Ausstellung in Cologne |
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Friendship to Lyonel Feininger, Franz Marc und August Macke |
| 1913 |
Dissolution of the Brücke artists' group |
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First solo exhibition at Fritz Gurlitt's gallery in Berlin |
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Beginning of a lifelong friendship with the art historian, collector and patron of the arts Walter Kaesbach |
| 1913-1944 |
Regular summer stays in Osterholz on the Flensburg Fjord, where he buys a little farmhouse in 1919 |
| 1915-1918 |
During World War I, trained as a nurse, then served as a medic in Flanders (Ostend), where he met Max Beckmann and James Ensor |
| 1918 |
Return to Berlin |
| 1919 |
Exhibition at the Kestner-Gesellschaft in Hanover |
| 1919-1921 |
Intensive landscape painting in the Röhn, Eichsfeld, Allgäu, Erzgebirge, Black Forest and Lake Constance |
| 1922 |
Commission for the mural cycle ″Lebensstufen″ in the Angermuseum in Erfurt |
| 1923 |
Exhibition at the Städtisches Museum in Gdansk |
| 1925 |
Exhibition at the Richter Gallery in Dresden and the Nierendorf Gallery in Düsseldorf |
| 1931 |
Large retrospective at the Kunsthütte in Chemnitz |
| 1937 |
Defamation as a ″degenerate artist″, exhibition ban and confiscation of numerous works from museum collections |
| 1944 |
Loss of the Berlin studio due to bombing |
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Relocation in Hemmenhofen on Lake Constance |
| 1949-1955 |
Teaching at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe |
| 1953 |
To celebrate his 70th birthday, exhibition at the Folkwang-Museum Essen and the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe |
| 1963 |
To celebrate his 80th birthday, exhibition at the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe and the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart |
| 1970 |
died in Radolfzell on Lake Constance |
