Naissance le 3 décembre à Fribourg-en-Brisgau.
Graduated from secondary school in Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany).
Studied art history at the University of Freiburg.
Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe.
Military service.
Return to Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) and independent further development of his painting practice.
Friendship with the sinologist Ernst Grosse, who introduced him to Eastern art.
Marriage to Lisbeth Hofschneider.
He worked in the style of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), producing still lifes, landscapes, and portraits. He increasingly participated in exhibitions in Germany and abroad, with his works gaining recognition through acquisitions by public collections and the awarding of prizes.
Birth of his daughter Dorothée Hofschneider.
Birth of his son Uli Hofschneider. Gold Medal of Düsseldorf.
Shift toward abstract painting. Friendship with Willi Baumeister.
Beginning of a professorship at the University of Freiburg (Germany), where he directed the drawing course.
Trip to Paris (France), where he met Constantin Brancusi.
Beginning of ink drawing practice.
Travail presque exclusif à l’encre de Chine.
Fire at the University of Freiburg (Germany), which destroyed almost all the works stored there and brought his regular teaching at the university to an end. Death of his son Uli Hofschneider.
Close friendship with Oskar Schlemmer and an intensive correspondence maintained until his death.
Two trips to Italy.
Settlement in Hagnau on the shores of Lake Constance. Lisbeth Hofschneider expanded her textile weaving studio, which gained considerable renown.
Isolated from the outside world, the artist often spent hours playing the cello and managing the accounts of his wife’s business. At night, he produced large-scale symbolic ink drawings.
Color monotypes, woodcuts, pastels, and ink drawings.
Beginning of the Miniatures: oil and egg tempera on un-stretched canvas, and watercolors.
First stays in Ascona.
Friendship with Jean Arp.
Permanent settlement in Ascona.
Member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin.
Exhibited at documenta III in Kassel.
Died on June 18 in Ascona.
Première exposition individuelle au Kunstverein de Fribourg-en-Brisgau.
Exposition au Kunsthaus de Zurich.
Première grande rétrospective à la Kestner-Gesellschaft de Hanovre, montrée ensuite à Duisbourg, Hagen, Brême.
Participation à la XXIXe Biennale de Venise.
Participation à la Documenta II de Kassel.
Rétrospective au Gemeentemuseum de La Haye.
Exposition particulière dans le pavillon allemand à la XXXe Biennale de Venise et prix de la Banca di Sanpaolo.
Prix d’art de la Ville de Berlin.
Expositions à Paris, Bologne et à Londres.
Exposition particulière à la VIe Biennale de Sao Paulo avec Prix du Jubilé.
Rétrospective aux Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles.
Première exposition à New York à la Galerie Lefebre.
Rétrospective au Kunstverein de Hambourg, présentée également à Ulm, Stuttgart, Wuppertal, Mannheim et Fribourg-en-Brisgau.
Rétrospective générale à l’Institute of Contemporary Art de Boston, présentée à Chicago, Détroit, Utica N. Y., Los Angeles.
Exposition à Documenta III de Kassel.
Julius Bissier, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco/The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York/The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C/Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Pittsburgh/Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas.
Julius Bissier, Nationalgalerie, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.
Julius Bissier, 1893-1965: An Exhibition from the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.
Julius Bissier 1893-1965, Haus der Kunst, Munich; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico-City; Museo de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro; Museo Nacional de Plásticas, Montevideo.
Peintres du silence : G. Morandi, J. Bissier, B. Nicholson, M. Tobey, M. Rothko, I. Valenti, Musée Jenisch, Vevey.
Julius Bissier, The Museum of Modern Art, Haifa (Israel).
Julius Bissier, at the Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (Spain) / Fundación Juan March, Madrid (Spain) / Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon.
Julius Bissier – Works / Œuvres 1930–1965, Museo d’Arte Mendrisio, Mendrisio and Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny.
Julius Bissier – Tuschen, Monotypes et Miniatures, Kunstmuseum Basel.
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Julius Bissier, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf.
Julius Bissier, From the Beginnings of Painting, 1915–1939, Museum of New Art, Freiburg im Breisgau.
Julius Bissier, Bancaja Foundation, Valencia/Madrid.
Julius Bissier, Works 1913–1965, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne.
Julius Bissier “Grösse der Stille”. Die Julius Bissier Sammlung (Doppelausstellung mit Paul Klee), Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf.
Julius Bissier, Works from 1923 to 1965, Morandi Museum, Bologna.
Julius Bissier. Der metaphysische Maler, Bochum Art Museum, Bochum / Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano.
Julius Bissier. Zeichnungen und Monotypien, Kunstmuseum, Basel.
Julius Bissier. Selected Works 1956 to 1963, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte NC.
Julius Bissier und Ostasien. Im Raum meiner Imagination, Augustinermuseum, Fribourg-en-Brisgau.
Julius Bissier für die Sammlung, Museum für Neue Kunst, Fribourg-en-Brisgau.
Julius Bissier, oeuvres sur papier, Ditesheim & Maffei Fine Art, Neuchâtel.
