3rd June: Eberhard Schlotter is born in Hildesheim, Germany.

Observes for the first time the etcher Karl Radler at work, fascinated by the precision of this art form. It was all so fascinating that I hardly dared breath... It was then that I, too, wanted to etch.

Learns to draw under the strict supervision of his father, the sculptor and art professor, Heinrich Schlotter. Meets his father's friend, Kurt Switters.

Guest student of Wilhelm Maigatter at the College for Trade and Craft at Hildesheim. Produces his first etching "Hückedahl".

First solo exhibition, Knockenhauer-Amtshaus, Hildesheim. Grant from the Friedrich Behrens Foundation, Hannover. Studies at the Academy of Fine Art in Munich. Rents a studio. "I just wanted to be a painter.  My childhood had been full of happiness... behind me lay my youth, overshadowed by the rapid march and  order of an evil force.". The Second World War breaks out.

Marries Dorothea von der Leyen.

Establishes himself as an artist in Darmstadt.

First solo exhibition after the war, at the Felix Dörffel Art Agency, Darmstadt.

A daughter Sibylle, is born, today a photographer. Friendship with Kasimir Edschmid.

Exhibition "Oil paintings, watercolours" at Amerikahaus, Darmstadt. Correspondence with Max Beckmann.

Produces frescoes at the Victoria School, Darmstadt. Exhibition with the New Darmstadt Secession at the Mathildenhöhe: "Man’s Present Image".

First visit to Spain. Produces murals for public and private centres in Germany. Visits Picasso and Matisse in Vallauris in Vence. The Ströher Prize for Contemporary Art.

Visits the Near East. Second visit to Spain. The discovery of Altea. Exhibition with the New Darmstadt Secession in Vienna. Pro-Art Prize.

President of the New Darmstadt Secession. The writer Ernst Kreuder informs Schlotter of the dangerous situation in which Amo Schmidt finds himself, living in Kassel, near Saarburg, where he is threatened with prosecution for blasphemy and pornography. Schlotter succeeds in relocating the Schmidt family to Darmstadt and this is the beginning of a lifelong friendship.

Journey to Paris. Journey to Spain. Leaves Germany. Buys an old house on the beach at Cap Negret, Altea. Travels through Spain. From his experience of the south emerges a series of paintings "The Butcher’s Family", a series he will come back to and complete in the 1980s.

Gives up the presidency of the New Darmstadt Secession and leaves the group together with Arno Schmidt.

First solo exhibition in Spain, the Fé Gallery, Madrid. Visits the painter Joan Miró. Meets the painter Antoni Tapies. Begins a friendship with Oskar Kokoschka.

Exhibition "Oil Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings and Graphics" (the so-called Spanish Harvest) at the Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt. Prepares for his return to Germany.

1961

Friendship with Otto Dix. Friendship with Ludwig Meidner.

Exhibition "Paintings-Graphics" at the Klihm Gallery,Munich. Exhibition "Paintings-Graphics" at the Salve Hospes House in Braunschweig.

A series of experiments result in the first etchings produced by using a technique he had developed himself: the technique of "soft aquantint etching".

Father dies. "During the last years of his life my father would go out alone and with great pleasure into the countryside surrounding Bargfeld to sketch and to paint watercolours. He visited us in Spain and drew and painted there. He had rediscovered the joy of living. The hours and days we spent with him were full of calm happiness. His criticism on fine arts had softened" The future German Chancellor, Willi Brandt, Mayor of Berlin, commissions a portrait of the architect Walter Gropius. Friendship and correspondence with him.

Exhibition: "Max Klinger/Eberhard Schlotter, Etchings", the Museum of Art, Darmstadt. Paints the series "Los Alimentos".

The Joseph E Drexel Prize, Nurenberg. Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg.

Paintings of distorting mirror images.

The Heinrich Merck Honour. Darmstadt Art Prize. Participates in the exhibition Homage to Albrecht Dürer at the National Germanic Museum in Nurenberg.

Travels to the Caribbean: Trinidad, Tobago and Dominica.

Produces etchings for Cervante’s Don Quixote, with text by writer and future Nobel Prize for Literature winner, Camilo José Cela.

Travels to Sri Lanka. Exhibition Etchings 1936-1978, the Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt.

Death of Arno Schmidt in Celle. Member of the Italian Academy. Gold Medal.

Exhibition: "Oils, Drawings, Etchings" in the "Roemer und Pelizaeus" Hildesheim Museum.

Exhibition "Don Quixote" at the Kreisler II Gallery, Madrid, the Gutenberg Museum and the Mittelrheinischen Landesmuseum in Mainz. Member of the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid.

Donation to the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid of all the etching plates for "Don Quixote" and one original set of etchings.

Journey to South America. Visits the painter Guayasamín. Exhibition "Etchings by Eberhard Schlotter: 1938-1984", the National Library, Madrid. Meets the writer Luis Borges. Etchings for Goethe’s "Faust".

Etchings of Christopher Colombus with texts by the Historian and Academic Juan Pérez de Tudela.

Travels to Cuba.

Guest Professor at the University of the Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. Travels to the Caribbean and the Amazon.

Travels to Colombia, Peru and Bolivia.

The Eberhard Schlotter Foundation of Celle, near Hannover, is formed. Presented with the Medal of Honour of Federal Germany. Death of wife after a long illness. Journey to Peru.

Journey to Peru and the Isle of Pascua."Slowly the colour seems to return to my paintings. The little light that remains to us is to love".

Anthological exhibition "Light and Shadow", the Alicante Diputation and the Altea Foundation. Exhibition "The Butcher’s Family", La Beneficencia Museum, Valencia.

Journey to South America. Exhibition "Picasso, Dalí, Miró, Schlotter: Graphic Art" at the Eberhard Schlotter Foundation, Altea.

Journey to South America. Exhibition "End of Century, Paintings and Watercolours of South America", Eberhard Schlotter Foundation. Commemorative exhibition of the 250th anniversary of Goethe’s birth. "Etchings by Eberhard Schlotter", the Goethe Institute,

Exhibition "Graphic Art, Watercolours and Drawings", the Josep Renau Exhibition Hall, the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Exhibition "The Empty Spaces (1950-1990)", The Bomann Museum in Celle, near Hannover. Eightieth birthday. Exhibition "Homage to Eberhard Schlotter, Drawings and Watercolours of Altea", Villa Gadea, Unesco International Centre for Music. Exhibition "Los Alimentos (1966): Oil Paintings, Drawings and Etchings", Altea Foundation.  Anthological exhibition "Eberhard Schlotter and the Spanish Mediterranean World (1952-2000)", Palau de Altea and the Exhibition Hall of the Caja de Ahorros Mediterráneo, Alicante. The San Carlos Gold Medal, the Fine Arts Faculty of the Polytechnic University of Valencia.

Anthological exhibition "Eberhard Schlotter and the Spanish Mediterranean World (1952-2000)", the Joan Miró Exhibition Hall, the Exhibition and Congress Halls in Madrid. Member of Merit of the Carlos III Foundation and of the Iberian-American Forum, Madrid. Exhibition "Max Klinger/Eberhard Schlotter, Master of Etching", the Altea Foundation. Exhibition "Eberhard Schlotter, Watercolours and Drawings of Altea", Exhibition Hall Las Cocheras del Rey, San Lorenzo del Escorial,Madrid. Exhibition "Eberhard Schlotter, A Traveller’s Notes, Watercolours, Drawings and Etchings of Cuba", the José Martí National Library, Havana, Cuba.

Exhibition "Eberhard Schlotter, Oil Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings and Etchings of Latin America", Eberhard Schlotter Foundaton, Altea. Exhibition "Portraits, Etchings by Eberhard Schlotter", the Arriaga Theatre, Bilbao.

Exhibition: "Doors, Walls, Entrances: Paintings by Eberhard Schlotter", Eberhard Schlotter Foundation, Altea. Exhibition "Masques, Oil Paintings, Drawings and Etchings by Evaristo Valle, Eberhard Schlotter and José Gutiérrez Solana", Eberhard Schlotter Foundation, Altea.

Exhibition "Don Quixote, IV Centenary, Etchings by Eberhard Schlotter", the Jovellanos Cultural Centre in Gijón, Asturias, the Palaces of the Extremadura Government in Mérida and Cáceres, Alicante University Museum, Toulouse University Museum."¡Que calor!: Paintings by Eberhard Schlotter, Recent Work", Eberhard Schlotter Foundation in Altea. "The Ingenious Nobleman. Etchings By Eberhard Schlotter, Recent Work", Eberhard Schlotter Foundation, The Valencia Library, San Miguel de los Reyes Monastery, Valencia. Exhibition "Don Quixote, IV Centenary, Etchings and Drawings by Eberhard Schlotter", Palau Arts Centre, Altea, and the Eberhard Schlotter Foundation of Altea.

Exhibition "Eberhard Schlotter, Watercolours and Drawings of the Valencian Community", the Exhibition Hall at the Royal Casino in Alicante. Exhibition "Eberhard Schlotter, 50 Years in Altea, 85 Birthdays, X Anniversary of the Foundation", the Eberhard Schlotter Foundation, Altea.

Federal Cross of Merit, Lower Saxony, Germany.
Exhibition "Eberhard Schlotter, Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings and Etchings of Peru", Instituto de Cultura Peruano Norteamericano (ICPNA), Lima, Peru.

More than 300 solo exhibitions in galleries and museums in Europe and more than 200 collective ones. More than 200 monographs, essays and publications on his work. More than 100 published texts and more than 50 bibliofile editions and presentation folders of texts by famous authors, illustrated with etchings by Eberhard Schlotter, amongst which special mention can be made of Kean by Kasimir Edschmid, Philosophy in the Boudoir by the Marquis de Sade, Los Alimentos by Eberhard Schlotter,The Golden Ass by Apulejo, Anna Livia Plurabelle by James Joyce, Orpheus by Arno Schmidt, Platero y Yo by Juan Ramón Jiménez, The Rose Poems, a homage to Rainer Maria Rilke, The Unfaithful Wife, etchings for a poem by Federico Garcia Lorca, The Decameron by Boccaccio, The Hunt with a prologue by Camilo José Cela, Sri Lanka by Eberhard Schlotter, Don Quixote by Cervantes with text by Camilo José Cela, Faust by J.W.Goethe, Christopher Colombus with texts by Juan Pérez de Tudela, etc. Many appearances in the press, and on radio and television.

Suermondt-Museum de Aachen. Fundación Eberhard Schlotter, Altea. Stadtbibliothek, Basel. Bibliothek der Freien Universität, Berlin. Kupferstichkabinett de Berlin. Staatsbibliothek de Berlin. Deutscher Bundesrat, Berlin. Museo de Bogotá. Museum Städtische Kunstsammlungen de Bonn. Historisches Stadtmuseum, Bonn. Herzog-Anton-Ulrich-Museum de Braunschweig. Bomann Museum, Celle. Kunstsammlungen der Veste, Coburg. Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt. Städtische Sammlung, Darmstadt. Nacional Library of Ireland, Dublín. Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf. Arno Schmidt Stitfung, Bargfeld, Eldingen. Stadtmuseum Esslingen. Villa Hügel, Essen. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main. Städtische Sammlung, Frankfurt am Main. Universitätsbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main. Stitfung Schloss Friedenstein, Gotha. Kunsthalle, Hamburg. Museum für Völkerkunde, Hamburg. Niedersächsische. Landesbibliothek, Hannover. Sprengel-Museum, Hannover. Städtische Sammlung, Hannover. Roemer-und Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim. Pfalzmuseum, Kaiserslautern. Staatliche Kunshalle, Karsruhe. Museo Nacional de Cuba, La Habana. Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba, La Habana. Deutsche Nationabibliothek, Leipzig. Museum Schloß Lichtenberg. Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid. Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid. Fundación Carlos III, Madrid. Gutenberg Museum, Mainz. Landesmuseum, Mainz. Hülsenbeck-Museum, Marburg. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München. Pinakhothek der Moderne, München. Museum of Modern Art, New York. Lockwood Memorial Library, New Cork. Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand. Stadtmuseum, Nurenberg. Ludwig Galerie Schloss, Oberhausen. Klingspor-Museum, Offenbach. Bibliothèque Nationale de France, París. Fundación Álvarez Viña, Gijón, Principado de Asturias. Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken. Kulturamt der Stadt, Siegen. Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart. Biblioteca de la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Biblioteca Valenciana, Valencia. Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel.