1878
Was born October 11, 1878 in Karlsruhe
1892
Apprenticeship as a merchant
1896
Scholarship for the Karlsruhe Academy of Arts
1903
Marriage with Mathilde Scheinberger and relocation to Rome
1923
Member of the Prussian Academy of Arts
1929
Admission to the senate of the Prussian Academy of Arts
1933
Was deprived of his teaching position
1937
Was defamed as “degenerate”
1943
Destruction of his studio by bombs as a result of which 150 paintings were destroyed. Placement in a sanatorium
1946-1946
Principal of the “Hochschule für bildende Künste” in Berlin as well as co-publisher of the magazine “Bildende Kunst”
1948
Honorary doctorate at the Berlin Humboldt University
1950
President of the Association of German Artists (“Deutscher Künstlerbund”)
1953
Art Award of the City of Berlin
1955
Died April 3, 1955 in Berlin