1941
Born (March 23) in Quirl, District Hirschberg (Giant Mountains, Lower Silesia); Father Ewald Hallmann (1904-1950), mother Liesbeth
1946
Family has to leave their home and is sent via Rheine to an emergency shelter in Emsdetten
1950
Father dies at age 46
1954
Paints his first oil painting
1955
The town of Emsdetten awards Blalla a special prize for his sculptures and linocuts at a youth competition
1957-1958
Academy of Fine Arts, Dusseldorf
1958-1960
Painting apprenticeship in Emsdetten
1960-1965
- Completes his apprenticeship in the fall of 1960
- Art Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg under Prof. Fritz Griebel
- Member of the artist trio around Herbert Haberl and Bernd Wangerin
1961
Trip to Paris for the hitherto most comprehensive Rousseau exhibition
1964
First exhibition in Vienna at the “Gallery in the Student Theatre” on Lueger Platz
1965
- Formation of a traveling theater with fellow students, the later “Hoffmann’s Comic-Theatre”, which later became the rock band Ton Steine Scherben; Other founding members were Dietmar Roberg, Gert and Peter Möbius
- Tour across Bavaria presenting mystery plays and Italian comedies
1967
Residency in the US (fall of 1967 to March 1969), meets Robert Crumb in San Francisco
1968
- Invitation of Norbert Stiegelmeyer to San Francisco
- Lecturer at the University of California, San Francisco
- Several exhibitions
- Deportation
1969
- Returning to Germany in March 1969
- Spends a few months in the psychiatric ward of the Nuremberg municipal hospital
- Meets psychiatrist Titus Milech in a psychiatric clinic in Erlangen, who becomes an early collector of Blallas works
- A further three months in the State Mental Hospital in Landeck-Klingenmuenster, Palatinate
1970
- Destroys all his paintings accessible to him
- Lives in West Berlin since spring
1971
May 28: Compulsory hospitalization into the psychiatric clinic Havelhoehe in West Berlin
1971-1972
- Repeated destruction of all his accessible works
- Stay in St. Joseph Hospital in Neheim-Huesten after having bouts of depression
1975
Two suicide attempts
1980-1981
Joint work with Rainer Zitta, Altdorf
1981
- Lives and works in Wuerzburg in a garden shed at Leutfresserweg
- In June 1981, Ingomar Oehler and some friends set up the “Blalla-Foundation”‘, a support organization on a private basis. Due to this financial support, Blalla is able to work financially secured for more than one year
1982-1984
Apartment and studio at the “Kunstverein” in Bruehl, in charge of etching and painting classes
1984
December: Relocation to Cologne-Ehrenfeld
1984-1992
Lives and works in Cologne
1992-1994
Lives and works in Berlin
1992-1995
Professorship at the Braunschweig University of Art
1994
Lives and works in Windsbach
1996
October: Diagnosed with cancer
2.7.1997
Died in Windsbach, (Middle Franconia)