1928
Born April 18, 1928 as Otto Ludwig Wilhelm Hermann Leonhard Piene in Laasphe
1949-1950
Studies in painting and art education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich
1950-1953
Studies in painting and art education at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf
1951-1964
Lecturer at the fashion school in Dusseldorf
1953-1957
Studies in philosophy at the University of Cologne, graduation with state examination
April 11th, 1957
Creation of the Dusseldorf-based artist group ZERO, which later became internationally influential, in conjunction with Heinz Mack
1964
Guest professorship at the University of Pennsylvania
1968-1971
Fellow of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) which was founded by Gyorgy Kepes in 1967
1972
Professor of Visual Design for Environmental Art at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1974
Principal of the CAVS over which he had presided until 1994
2008
Creation of the ZERO Foundation in conjunction with Heinz Mack, Günther Uecker and the “Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast”
2014
Otto Piene died July 17, 2014 in Berlin