Wolfgang
Fries

1938: Studies at the State School for Applied Arts

1939: Municipal theatres, Nuremberg (assistant)

1940-1945: Soldier (including 3 years as stage designer on Crete)

1945: 4 years imprisonment in what was then Yugoslavia

1950: Self-taught studies in anatomy (Erlangen) and zoological garden (Nuremberg)

1960/1962: Glass windows in St. Nikolaus and St. Ulrich, Nuremberg and glass windows in St. Lorenz, Nuremberg

1964/1974/1986: Long journeys in the Balkans (Greece and former Yugoslavia)

1966-1976: Gingerbread E. Otto Schmidt: Illustrations

1970: discovered drumming as a compensation for painting

1980-2005: Leading a pottery course

1983: Exhibition at the Fränkische Galerie, Nuremberg

2005: Wolfgang leaves his body