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HANS JOACHIM BREUSTEDT

1901	Born on 16 September as the son of Wilhelm Breustedt and Johanna Rothammel in Steinach/Thuringia.
1916	Attends the industrial school in Sonneberg until Easter 1917.
1917	Apprenticeship with painter Adolf Büger in Munich. In autumn, studied painting at the Grand Ducal Saxon Academy of Fine Arts in Weimar under Walther Klemm.
1919	Student of Lyonel Feininger at the State Bauhaus in Weimar.
1920	Departs for Italy in October. He stays there until early 1924.
1921	Birth of his son Michael from his relationship with Else Heinrich in Weimar. Meets the Polish painter Sofia Vorzimer in Italy.
1922	Birth of daughter Marysia in Florence in February. Marries Sofia Vorzimer in August.
1924	Returns from Italy. Continues his studies at the Staatliches Bauhaus. In the winter semester of 1924/25, transfers to the State Academy of Fine Arts. Master student of Walther Klemm.
1928	Completes his studies. Stays in Italy, Ticino and Poland.
1929-32	Drawing teacher at the free school community in Wickersdorf, Thuringia.
1932	Freelance artist in Weimar.
1938	Expelled from the Reichskammer der bildenden Künste, banned from working and exhibiting.
1939	Moves to Warsaw in June to await the opportunity to emigrate to the USA. Outbreak of the Second World War.
1940	Leaves Poland in January. From February main residence in Vöcklabruck, Upper Austria. From October military service in the Wehrmacht. Russian campaign.
1942	Death of his wife in Treblinka.
1945	scape from Russian captivity. Returns to Vöcklabruck after a short period in American captivity.
1946	Acquaintance with the Austrian artist Margret Bilger.
1950	Austrian citizenship.
1953	Marriage to Margret Bilger. Moves to Taufkirchen/Pram. He lived here, interrupted by longer stays with his daughter in Vevey, until 1981.
1971	Death of his second wife Margret Bilger.
1981	Final settlement in Vevey.
1984	Died on 28 September.

Source: Bilder-Breustedt Haus