1906 born in Nürtingen | |
1924-27 Apprenticeship as a wood sculptor | |
1927 -31 Studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule Stuttgart, master student with Prof. Alfred Lörcher | |
1933 forced to leave school for political reasons | |
from 1934 freelance artist | |
1943 Marriage to Hildegard Scholl | |
1944 soldier | |
1947 Founds the artist group "Die Freunde" (HAP Grieshaber, Richard Raach, Walter Renz and Hermann Krimmer and Werner Oberle); meets Willi Baumeister and Kurt Leonhard | |
1955 commissions stained glass windows for chapels and churches in Baden-Württemberg | |
1959 Meeting with Manfred Lehmbruck | |
1961 Encounter with Max Ackermann, Otto Baum, Otto Dix, Erich Heckel, Fritz Klemm and Ida Kerkovius | |
1963 Moves from Jägerstrasse to the house of the art collector Gustl Pfänder in Schellingstrasse | |
1964 Beginning of collaboration with the printer Poldi Domberger | |
1965 Meeting with the painter Adolf R. Fleischmann | |
1975 Appointment as honorary professor by the state of Baden-Württemberg | |
1977 Appointed honorary member of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart | |
1981 Appointed honorary member of the Baden-Württemberg Artists' Association | |
1982 Medal of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg | |
1986 Max Lütze Medal of the Lütze e.V. Family Association, awarded honorary citizenship of the city of Nürtingen | |
1986 died in Nürtingen |