1889 | born in Cotta near Dresden |
1904-07 | Apprenticeship as a pattern draftsman for textiles in Dresden |
1906-23 | Attends the evening department of the School of Arts and Crafts, courses in nature study |
1910 | Beginning of freelance artistic activity |
1911 | unsuccessful efforts to gain admission to the Dresden Art Academy |
1915 | military service |
1920 | Acquaintance with Dr. Felix Bondi, privy councillor of justice, chairman of the Dresden Museum Society; there also meets with Hölzel, Kandinsky and Klee, among others |
1923 | Studies at the Dresden Academy; travels to Munich |
1926 | Attempts constructive construction of drawings and paintings |
1927 | Admission to the German Artists' Association |
1929 | Summer stay in Voitsdorf; first "roof pictures" with Cubist echoes |
1930 | elementary-constructive forms and materials |
1935 | Model of the "Spatial Folding" of a rectangle as the first three-dimensional formulation of surface division |
1946 | Move to the Künstlerhaus Dresden-Loschwitz |
1952 | Glöckner maintains contacts with the West |
1956 | Visits Picasso exhibition in Hamburg; travels to Düsseldorf, Cologne; in October visits Baumeister exhibition at Haus am Waldsee in West Berlin |
1957 | first group of paper foldings |
1966 | Summer stay in Lindau on Lake Constance in the Art Foundation Plaas |
1967 | Beginning of the 1st catalog raisonné. The Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden acquires the panel "Sechsstrahliger Stern" (Six-pointed Star) from 1932 |
1974 | Werner Hofmann acquires two plates for the Kunsthalle Hamburg |
1975 | Glöckner accepts the commission for a large steel sculpture in a public square in Dresden. The realization is delayed by almost a decade |
1976 | The Lòdz Art Museum acquires 6 panels; in June trip to Paris |
1982 | longer stay in Leonberg; 6 early panels are acquired by the Nationalgalerie Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz |
1984 | Inauguration of the steel sculpture "Mast with two folding zones", erected in front of the TU-Dresden. National Prize for his paintings and graphic works as a whole |
1987 | died in West Berlin |