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1899 Studies art with Angelo Jank at Kunstlerrinen Verein, Munich.
1901 Studies with Augustus John in London.
1903 Moves to Paris; marries Stephen Haweis.
1905 Enters Gertrude Stein’s circle of artists and writers.
1906 Elected member of Salon d’Automne; moves to Florence.
1907 Joella Synara Haweis is born.
1909 Giles (John Giles Stephen Musgrove) Haweis is born.
1913 Meets F. T. Marinetti and other Futurist artists and writers; separates from Haweis.
1914 First poems published (Camera Work).
1916 Sails for New York City, where she enters Walter Conrad Arensberg’s circle of artists and writers; meets Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Arthur Cravan, etc.
1918 Travels to Mexico; marries Cravan in Mexico City. She travels to Europe via Buenos Aires; he fails to meet her as planned; he is never seen again.
1919 London; Lausanne; Florence Fabi (Jemima Fabienne) Cravan is born.
1920 Returns to New York; deepens her ties with American avant-garde writers and artists.
1921 Paris, Florence.
1922 Florence, Vienna, Potsdam, Berlin.
1923 Settles in Paris; first book of poems published (Lunar Baedecker [sic], Contact Pub. Co.).
1925 Narrative poem, Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose, completed.
1927 Gives talk on Stein and reads her own poems at Natalie Barney’s salon.
1931 Becomes Paris representative for her son-in-law’s (Julien Levy’s) New York gallery.
1933 Meets Richard Oelze.
1936 Moves to New York; lives in the Bowery; friendship with Joseph Cornell; begins revising prose works begun in Paris, including Insel, presumably.
1946 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 fall: 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.)
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