1929 |
born in Innichen, South Tyrol (today: San Candido, Italy), youngest of eight children |
| 1933 | in november move to Lienz, East Tyrol |
| 1943/44 | student of sculpture at the school of applied arts in Innsbruck, sculpture class of Prof. Pontiller; studies broken off due to the Second World War |
| 1949 | first artistic activities and self-studies of art history |
| 1950/52 | move to Brugg and Aarau, Switzerland; jobs supplied financial basis for later art studies; first contacts with contemporary art |
| 1952/58 | student at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, master class for painting of Prof. Robin Chr. Andersen |
| 1954/58 | work at the master class |
| 1958 | graduation and national award (for the best graduate of the year of the Academy of Fine Arts); return to Lienz after futile attempts to find a studio in Vienna |
| 1958/62 | art production on a farm in Thal near Lienz |
| 1961 | marriage with Annemarie Zsak, art teacher, and move to Lienz |
| 1963 | birth of a son |
| 1963/70 | study of the development of a child's imaginary world as it is expressed in his/her pictures according to his/her natural influences; intensified occupation with the problems of teaching art; commitment to finding a location for exhibiting art in Lienz |
| 1964 | co-founder of the City Art Gallery, Lienz; in charge of the artistic management |
| 1966 | art studies in Paris |
| 1970 | reform proposal concerning the training of art teachers for the Federal Ministry of Education |
| 1970/71 | in winter term guest professor at Mannheim Art School; occupation with graphic arts |
| 1971 | move to Vienna; intensive continuation of graphic arts with Prof. Herbert at the Academy of Applied Arts Vienna |
| 1972 | purchase of a studio |
| 1973 | elected into the board of BVÖ, the federal association of Austrian artists; participation at the sculptors' symposium in Krastal, Carinthia |
| 1974/87 | freelance artist and art teacher (school of applied arts, Herbststraße, Vienna) |
| 1977 | president of BVÖ the federal association of Austrian artists on the board of DACS (Design and Artists' Copyright Society), later president of DACS and vice president of the union of Austrian artists ('Künstlerunion', which represents all Austrian artists) |
| 1981 | renovation of the studio |
| 1980/83 | studies on alpine pastures in Iseltal, East Tyrol - beginning of the series “rocks and mountains” |
| 1985 | after a long, serious illness resignation from all public offices |
| 1986 | retirement from teaching |
| 1989 | purchase of a garden on Schafberg, Vienna; consequently end of the series "rocks and mountains"; development of a new concept of nature; |
| 2000 | development of new ideas and resumption of the subjects already dealt with in Thal in a new light |
| 2008 | sudden death on august, 18th |