1935
Was born on February 10th in Dusseldorf.
1952
Acquaintance with his later spouse Lilo Lang at an Italian dancing school
1954
Graduated from academic high school.
1955
First typewriter-painting
1960
Marriage to Lilo. First solo exhibition abroad at Galleria Arturo Schwarz in Milan
"Großer Kunstpreis" of the federal state Nordrhein-Westfahlen
1961
First contact with the Parisian surrealist circle around André Breton
1965
First exhibition in Paris and birth of his first son David
1976
Start of the intense preoccupation with the technique of etching
1979
Professorship and direction of a class for free painting at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf
1987
Lilo Klapheck lost her life in a fire in the family’s holiday home in the Netherlands
1997
Beginning of a new series depicting nudes in interiors and landscapes
2010
Honorary member of the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf