1889
Richard Seewald is born on 4 May in Arnswalde in the region of Neumark (then in Germany, today in Poland).
1909
After leaving secondary school he begins to study architecture at Munich Polytechnic. He gives up studying and makes a living from drawing caricatures for the magazines Die Jugend, Meggendorfer Blätter and Lustige Blätter.
1910
First trip to Ascona.1911
First exhibition at the Galleria Thannhauser in Munich. Participation in the "Salon d'Automne" in Paris. He marries in London on 11 November.
1912
First oil paintings created on the island of Rab in Dalmatia. Participation in the "Salon d'Automne" in Paris.
1913
Participation at the first "Deutscher Herbstsalon "˜Der Sturm'" in Berlin. Exhibition at the "Neuer Kunstsalon" Dietzel in Munich with Marianne Werefkin. Member of the "Neue Sezession" in Munich and the "Deutscher Künstlerbund". Trips to Ascona and Corsica.
1914
Journey to southern France.
1916
Stay in Ticino.
1917
In Munich and Lower Bavaria.
1920
Group exhibition at the Julius Thannhauser Gallery in Munich.
1921
First illustrated book "Tiere und Landschaften".
1922
Trip to Italy at the invitation of Prince Massimo.
1923
Trips to Sicily and Tunis.
1924
Appointed a teacher at the "Kölner Werkschulen". Buys land in Ronco.
1929
Conversion to Catholicism.
1931
Turns down a teaching post in Cologne. First sacred painting at Norderney. Moves to Ronco on a permanent basis.
1934
Journey to the "border of the West"1939
Swiss citizenship. Exhibition in London.
1948
First stay in Germany after the war (Cologne).
1954
Exhibition to celebrate his 65th birthday in Lucerne, Düsseldorf, Mannheim and Munich. Tenure at the Fine Arts Academy in Munich. Establishes a winter residence in Munich.
1957
Member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.
1958
Renounces his tenure at the Munich Academy.
1961
Paints the wall decorations on the arcades of the "Hofgarten" in Munich.
1967
His wife Uli Seewald dies on 4 May.
1973
Exhibition at the Wolfgang Ketterer Gallery in Munich.
1974
Exhibition of sacred art "Kunst in der Kirche" at the Catholic Academy of Bavaria in Munich.
1976
Cycle of the Story of the Genesis in the Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Church of the Sacred Heart) in Munich. Richard Seewald dies in Munich on 29 October. He is buried beside his wife Uli in the graveyard in Ronco sopra Ascona.