1874
Born in Liebau, Silesia (now Poland)
1890–1894
Apprenticeship with a lithographer in Görlitz
1894–1897
Studies at the Academy of Art in Dresden
1898
Studies in Munich
1908
Moved to Berlin with his wife Maschka
1910
After being rejected by the Berlin Secession, he founded the Neue Secession with Emil Nolde and Max Pechstein
1911
Worked with Heckel and Kirchner on the Baltic coast and at the Moritzburg Lakes near Dresden
1913
Final break-up of the Brücke group, Mueller maintains contact and friendship with the other former members
1914–1918
Served in the military for one year during World War I and is briefly hospitalized in 1917
1919
Mueller begins teaching at the Breslau Academy and continues there until his death
1920–1929
Extensive travels throughout Eastern Europe
1930
Died on September 24th in a sanatorium near Breslau
[This is the artist's biography published on Artnet, http://www.artnet.com/artists/otto-mueller/biography]