| 1933 | born on 8 November in Germersheim / Palatinate. His father was a sculptor, his mother a painter. |
| 1934 – 1952 | Childhood, school years and Abitur (equivalent of high school graduation) |
| 1953 – 1958 | Attendance of the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich |
| 1955 | Student of Heinrich Kirchner |
| 1957 | Cofounder of the artists collective SPUR (together with Heimrad Prem, Helmut Sturm, HP Zimmer) |
| 1959 | Rome Scholarship of the Arnold’sche Stiftung; marriage with Christel Zakrzewski in Lübeck; SPUR joins S.I. (Situationistische Internationale; translation: Situationalistic International) |
| 1960 | Art Award of Jugend für Plastik (Youth for Sculpture), Mannheim |
| 1961 | Villa Massimo Scholarship, Rome |
| 1966 | Briefly a member of the artists collective GEFLECHT |
| 1967 | Schwabinger Art Award, Munich |
| 1968 | Palatinate Award |
| 1971 | Sponsorship Award of the City of Munich for Sculpture |
| 1972 | Art Award of the City of Darmstadt |
| 1975 – 1997 | Professor at the University of Arts, Berlin |
| 1990 | Art Award of the German Federal State of Rhineland-Palatinate |
| 1991 | Member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Munich |
| 2000 | Art Award of the City of Neumarkt |
| 2004 | dies on 15 June in Baierbrunn near Munich; grand opening of the Museum Lothar Fischer on 19 June in Neumarkt i.d.OPf. |