Becomes American citizen.
1949
Moves to heart of Bowery; less and less contact with old friends living in New York.
1953
Lives near her daughters in Aspen, Colorado.
1959
Exhibition of her work, Bodley Gallery, New York.
1966
Dies, September 25, in Aspen.
(Adapted from The Last Lunar Baedeker, ed. Roger L. Conover [Highlands, N.C.: Jargon Society, 1982].)
APPENDIX C
CHRONOLOGY OF RICHARD OELZE
1900
b. June 29, Magdeburg.
1921–25
Studies at Bauhaus, Weimar; travels to Berlin, Hamburg, Leipzig, Köln, Düsseldorf.
1926–29
Spends time in Dresden; more than a month-long visit at Dessau Bauhaus; travels to Essen.
1929–30
Ascona.
1930–32
Berlin; more than a month traveling in the Gardasee.
1932
Late falclass="underline" Travels to Mainz and Frankfurt/Main.
1933
March 31: Takes train across the border to France; settles in Paris; loose contact with Breton, Dali, Eluard, Ernst; October: exhibits paintings in Salon des Indépendents.
1936
October 1: Leaves Paris for Switzerland.
1936–37
Ascona.
1937–38
Positano.
1938
Returns to Germany: Essen, Mulheim/Ruhr, Magdeburg, Berlin.
1939
Early in the year: settles in Worpswede.
1940
Conscription and military service.
1945
American imprisonment and release.
1945–62
Worpswede.
1951
Marries Hedwig Rohde.
1953
Travels to Paris.
1962
Moves to Porteholz bei Hameln.
1964
Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Preis der Stadt Hagen; other prizes.
1965
Nomination as full member to Academy of Art, Berlin.
1980
Dies, May 27, in Porteholz.
(Adapted from Richard Oelze 1900–1980: Gemalde und Zeichnungen, hrsg. Wieland Schmied [Berlin: Akademie der Künste und Autoren, 1987], p. 185.)