Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Following the death of her father in 1891, her mother moves to Trogen together with her four children.

Attends the Stauffacher school in St. Gallen.

The mother and her two youngest children reacquire Swiss citizenship.

Attends the Mesdames van Muyden boarding school in Vevey.

Guest student of the drawing school at the Industrie- und Gewerbemuseum St. Gallen.

In October begins her studies at the Lehr- und Versuch-Ateliers für angewandte und freie Kunst (Debschitz School) in Munich.

Studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule Hamburg. Returns for the 1913-1914 winter semester at the Debschitz School in Munich.

Graduates from the Debschitz School and returns to Switzerland in November following the outbreak of World War I. Future place of residence is Zurich.

Beginning in the summer, visits Rudolf von Laban's school for movement arts in Zurich and on Monte Verità, Ascona; makes the acquaintance of Hans Arp in November.

Member of the Swiss Werkbund.

Traces design and embroidery at the technical school for embroidery in the arts and crafts department of the Gewerbeschule Zürich.

Dance performance in late March for the opening of the Galerie Dada in Zurich; various dance performances with Laban's school for movement arts.

Marionettes and stage designs created for a contemporary adaptation of Carlo Gozzi's play Le roi cerf; member of the association Das Neue Leben, participating in all four exhibitions taking place between 1918 and 1920.

Marries Hans Arp, thereby assuming German citizenship.

Member of the Swiss division of the Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes in Paris.

Adopts French citizenship; interior design work in Strasbourg, partly in collaboration with Hans Arp; also collaborates with Theo van Doesberg in establishing the Stadtpalais Abete as a multi-use entertainment complex.

Moves to Meudon on the outskirts of Paris into a house she designed herself; abandons applied art to focus on painting and drawing.

Interior design work in Paris and Berlin.

Member of the Parisian artist groups Cercle et Carré and Abstraction Création.

Sculptural works in wood, some in collaboration with Hans Arp.

Member of Allianz, the Zurich association of modern Swiss artists.

Editing and publication of the international art magazine «plastique plastic».

Flees to Grasse in southern France via Nérac and Veyrier before the German invasion of Paris in June.

Dies of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning on the night of January 13-14.