étudie à l’école d’art de Batoumi
Moves with his family to Athens, where he abandons his studies.
Arrives in Vienna as a forced labourer.
Studies painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Robin Christian Andersen.
Studies sculpture under Fritz Wotruba.
Recipient of the Prize of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Meets Annemarie Persche, sculptor and poet. Marries her two years later.
Hugo von Montfort Prize, Bregenz.
Prize of the Austrian Federation of Industry.
Participates in the Venice Biennale (Austrian Pavilion), where he meets Alberto Giacometti.
Recipient of the City of Vienna Prize.
Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Visiting professor at the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts.
Will Grohmann Prize, City of Berlin.
Professor of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Prize of the International Biennial of Small Sculpture, Budapest.
Major donation of works to the National Gallery of Athens.
Corresponding member of the Athens Academy of Arts.
Corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.
Solo exhibitions on the occasion of his 90th birthday: Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities) and Galerie bei der Albertina-Zetter.
Grand Gold Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria.
Jerg-Ratgeb Prize and solo exhibition at the Reutlingen Museum of Fine Arts.
Dies in Vienna.
Retrospective at the Leopold Museum, Vienna.
Exhibition at Ditesheim & Maffei Fine Art, Neuchâtel (with Geneviève Asse).
