1932

Born on the 26th of November in  Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany.

He is the son of a Swiss father and a german mother.

1952 - 1965

Work in his father's factory for longcase clocks & clock cases.

Ed Sommer is an autodidact artist.

1958 - 1960

First artistic works: monochrome relief paintings.

1960 - 1965

Metallic and acrylic sculptures.

1966 - 1969

German correspondent for the Art International magazine.

1968 - 1972

Thermoplastic acrylic sculptures.

Erotic collages & films with his first wife.

1970

Co-founder of the Gmünder Künstler Cooperative.

1972

The films are represented in Kassel for the Documenta 5.

1972 - 1978

Acrylic compositions & literary compositions.

1975

Mariage with YongSa.

1977 bis 1985

Gestual symbolic works.

1979

First photography projections.

1980 - 1982

Interviews for the KUNSTMagazin, Mainz, Germany.

1983 - 2002

Ed Sommer mainly lives with his family in Mirabeau, south of France.

From 1984

Development of a dialogue art called portraits/réponses.

1989 - 1991

Human rights projects with his wife YongSa:

Tian Anmen & Art for a free Tibet.

1990 bis 1996

Ed Sommer organised international conferences at the Goethe Institut in Paris and Marseille.

2000 - 2002

Photographic work: Anonyme MetaPortraits.

2002

Ed Sommer turned back to Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany.

2002 - 2015

Literary work: He wrote more than 2500 texts, manifests, spoken texts about Planetary Awareness & Flow Fields Worlds.

17.08.2015.

Died in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany.