Born in Turin

Studies of Engineering and Architecture in Bologna

Military service

Lives in Rome, works as an engineer, makes drawings and landscapes, gets in contact with different sculptors and is meeting his future wife

Lives in Milan, works as architect

Lives in Berlin, gets in contact with artists of expressionism, first etchings

Journey to Paris, studio in Paris

Marriage with Genni / Jenny Wiegmann, stay in Milan, wall painting “The Mother“

Apartment and studio in the Via Rugabella 19, Milan

Military service

Deep bombings in July and within destruction of his house and his whole ownership in the street Via Rugabella

Member of the KPI, writes for the communist press

Professorship for painting at the Kunsthochschule (Academy of Arts) in Berlin

Stage settings for the “Berliner Ensemble” and the “Deutsche Theater”

Professorship at the Institut für Kunsterziehung (Institute of Art) at the University of Greifswald

Execution of his huge picture “Riot of the Young” (Aufstand der Jugend)” for Berlin

Serious disease and death of Genni / Jenny

Marriage with Susanne Arndt

Died in Milan