1928 | Born in Halle (Saale) |
1945-50 | studied at the Burg Giebichenstein School of Art under the typographer Herbert Post |
1950-57 | works as a painter; friendships with the artists Kurt Bunge, Albert Ebert, Gertraud and Otto Möhwald, Otto Müller, and Hilmar and Heidi Manthey |
1955 | joins the Deutscher Künstlerbund and the Verband Bildender Künstler Deutschlands (VBKD) (Association of German Artists) |
1956 | First solo exhibition with Eduard Henning |
1957 | Participation in Great Art Exhibition at the Haus der Kunst (Munich) |
| appointment to the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe |
1958 | Move to Karlsruhe |
1959 | Participation in the exhibition of the "Neue Darmstädter Sezession" and membership |
1962 | Professorship at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe (students include Dieter Krieg, Wolfgang Trust, Hans Baschang, Manfred Woitischek and Wolfgang Henning) |
1963 | Solo exhibition at the Wuppertal Art and Museum Society |
1965 | Member of the board of the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg |
since 1969 | involvement with ceramic works |
1974 | Retrospective of his work at the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden |
1978 | died in Karlsruhe |
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| Herbert Kitzel was a member of the German Artists' Association |