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| 1902 | Born in Berlin on 11 June. |
| 1915 | Nay enters the boarding school of Schulpforta in Thuringia, beginning interest in modern art and first attempts at painting.
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| 1921 | High school diploma in Schulpforta and return to Berlin; starts apprenticeship for the book trade at the bookshop Gsellius in Berlin, paints in his free time. |
| 1922 | Breaks off his apprenticeship, paints his first self-portrait.
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| 1924 | Nay paints his first self-taught landscapes and portraits and presents three of his paintings to Carl Hofer at the Akademie für bildende Künste, Berlin and receives a |
scholarship at the Akademie für bildende Künste, where he attends the painting class of Carl Hofer.Ernst Wilhelm Nay (June 11, – April 8, ) was a German painter and graphic designer of classical modernism. Since , Michael Werner Gallery has worked with some of the most important European and American artists of the 20th Century.Ernst Wilhelm Nay was born in Berlin in He developed an interest in art at a young age and taught himself drawing and painting.Ernst Wilhelm Nay is born on June 11 in Berlin as the second of the six children of the senior civil servant Johannes Nay and his wife Elisabeth.Ernst Wilhelm Nay was a German painter known for his association with the Art Informel movement and post-World War II artists such as Karel Appel. |
| 1927 | Nay becomes Hofer’s "Meisterschüler" and receives his own studio at the academy. |
| First participations in group exhibitions and first acquisition of a landscape painting by the Provinzial-Museum in Hannover.
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Paul Westheim, publisher of the periodical "Das Kunstblatt" notices Nay
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