1919 Born in Carinthia, Austria

1941-1944 Studies at the Academy for Applied Arts, Vienna

1945 Lassnig returns to Klagenfurt where her studio becomes a meeting place of artists and writers including Michael Gutten- brunner, Arnold Clementschitsch, Max Hölzer, and Arnold Wande.

1949 Lassnig creates her first body awareness drawings, which were referred to at the time as “introspective experiences.” She has one of her first solo exhibitions at Galerie Kleinmayr in Klagenfurt.

1951  Moves to Vienna and becomes a member of the so-called “hundsgruppe” (dog pack), a short lived spin off of the Art Club which included Ari Braur, Ernst Fuchs, Wolfgang Kurdnofsky, Arnulf Rainer, and others

Wins a scholarship to travel to Paris where she meets Paul Celan along with several representatives of Surrealism including, Anré Breton, Benjamin Péret, and Toyen.

1952  Influenced by art informel, Lassnig creates the series Amorphous Rhythms, Static Meditations, Active Disgust, Field Divisions. She returns to Paris and exhibits at Vienna’s Art Club gallery.

1961 Moves to Paris and has a studio on Rue de Bagnolet. Here she releases herself from stylistic constraints and begins painting large scale “body-awareness” figurations which points to the work that would later become synonymous with her name

1962 Develops narrative paintings with one or more figures which borrow from forms of science fiction.

1963 Participates in a group show at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris.

1964 With the death of her mother, Lassnig plunges into an existential crisis and begins painting her so-called “weeping pictures” that express her grief and intense relationship with her mother.

1966-1968 Has several solo exhibitions and participates in numerous group exhibitions in Paris and Vienna.

1968 Moves to New York and sets up a studio in the East Village to be in, as she called it, “the country of strong women.” Though well-known in Austria, Lassnig was relatively unheard of in the United States, New York City offered her a liberation of sorts from the male-dominated art scene of Europe.

1971 Begins studying animated film at the School of Visual Arts and creates her first two films: Chairs and Selfportrait.

1972-1973 Is awarded the New York State Council Prize for her animated film Selfportrait. Continuing to explore animation and film, Lassnig makes Couples, Shape and Palmistry.

1974 Co-founds Women/Artist/Filmmakers, Inc. as a group of feminist filmmakers. The group in- cluded artists such a Martha Edelhait, Carolee Schneemann, Silvianna Goldsmith, and Rosalind Schneider.

1977  Wins the Award of the City of Vienna for Fine Art

The Albertina shows a retrospective of her graphic and cinematic work in their graphic collection

1978  Represents Austria at the Biennial in Venice with Valie Export

Receives a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and moves to Berlin

Begins creating more and more landscape drawings and watercolors as well as graphic body awareness and perception studies