
Self portrait
1878 | born in Basel |
1899-1901 | private art school |
1902-06 | Rome trip with childhood friend Carl Burckhardt; Basel; preoccupation with Impressionism and Cézanne in Paris |
1906-13 | Karlsruhe; relationship with Hans Thoma and Wilhelm Trübner; Mo-saic works in the Paulus church in Basel |
1913-39 | Professorship at the Art Academy in Stuttgart; 1919-21 Director |
1923 | Co-founder of the "Stuttgarter Sezession", until 1928 1st chairman |
1939 | resigns from professorship; moves to Zurich; acquaintance with Heinrich Wölfflin |
1947 | died in Zurich |