1908
Ruprecht Geiger is born on the 26th of January in Munich
1926-1929
Architectural studies at the Munich Kunstgewerbeschule as disciple of Eduard Pfeiffer
1933-1935
Architectural studies at the Munich Staatsbauschule
1940-1944
Military service at the eastern front in Poland and Russia; from 1943 on, deployment as a war painter in Ukraine and, from 1944 onwards, in Greece; autodidactic studies in war diaries and first egg tempera-paintings
1949
Co-founder of the artist group ZEN 49
1949-1962
Work as a freelance architect
1951
Received the Domnick Award of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
1959
Salomon-Guggenheim Award, New York
1965-1976
Professorship of painting at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf
1968
Burda Award
1970
Member of the Berlin Art Academy
1979
Honorary member of the Staatliche Kunstakademie Dusseldorf
1983
Member of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste in Munich
1986
Gold Medal at the 8th Norwegian International Graphics Biennale in Fredrikstad
1988
Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
1989
Honorary Prize for Culture awarded by the city Munich
1992
Rubens Prize of the city of Siegen
1993
Honorary Member of the Munich Akademie der Bildenden Künste
Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
1998
Golden Honor Medal of the city Munich
2009
Rupprecht Geiger dies on the 6th of in Munich