1889 born Clifford Holmead Phillips in Shippensburg/Pennsylvania, USA
1908 - 1912 apprenticeship in his father's furniture factory
1912 First boat trip to Europe, intensive study of European art; decision to become a painter
1913 - 1924 Travels to American museums and galleries, stays in the artist colonies of New England
1924 - 1941 Second trip to Europe with repeated work stays in Paris
1924 in painting Influence of Maurice de Vlaminck (1876 - 1958)
1929 Move to Bruges
1930 Picturesque motifs; landscapes in Flanders, churches
1931 Moves from Bruges to Munich; co-founder of the artists' association "An American Group" in New York
1933 Marriage to the photographer Elisabeth Fritze from Bremen, in New York
1934 First biblical themes, landscapes
1936 - 1940 Stays in Sweden, Denmark and Norway
1938 First still lifes, biblical and literary themes, Swedish landscapes
1940 Exhibition in Oslo, which is closed on April 9 after the invasion of German troops; moves to northern Italy
1941 Travels through France, Spain, Portugal; from Lisbon to New York;
1942 - 1955 Stays in New York, Missouri, Wisconsin, Massachusetts; painting: predominantly religious and literary themes, satirical pictures
1944 works under the artist name HOLMEAD
1956 Move to Brussels
1958 Painting: portraits, tree landscapes
1961 Stroke; longer interruption of painting
1962 - 1965 Reduced artistic production. Motifs: tree landscapes, first broadly painted pictures
1966 expressive painting style, first head painted in "shorthand-painting"
1967 - 1968 Transitional phase to late work, heads, simplified architectures
1969 - 1975 Extensive late work in "shorthand-painting"; heads, figures, landscapes, architecture
Died in Brussels/Etterbek in 1975; on February 27, she was transferred to Bremen and buried in the Rinsberg cemetery; Elisabeth Phillips moved to Bremen with her artistic estate, where she died on January 3, 1998.

literature

Rainer Zimmermann, Holmead. Life and Work, published by Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart, 1987

• 2019 - Buchheim Museum, Bernried on Lake Starnberg, "WELCOME HOLMEAD!"
• 2019 - Torres Nieto Fine Arts, Munich
• 2017 - Buchheim Museum, Bernried on Lake Starnberg, "HOLMEAD: Crude minds"
• 2017 - Von der Heydt-Museum/Kunsthalle Barmen
• 2016 - Kunsthalle Schweinfurt, "HOLMEAD - A painter between the worlds"
• 2016 - Gallery Petra Lange, Berlin
• 2016 - Gallery Bassenge, Berlin
• 2014 - Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt am Main
• 2013 - Ahrensburg Castle, "Biblical images"on the occasion of the 34th German Protestant Church Congress
• 2009 - Overbeck Museum, "Search images of faith"on the occasion of the 32nd German Protestant Church Congress
• 2009 - House of Science, Bremen; on the occasion of Holmead's 120th birthday
• 2009 - Ketterer Art, Berlin
• 2008 - Overbeck Foundation (Museum), Bremen
• 2007 - House of Science, Bremen
• 2007 - Foundation of the "Cultural Foundation of the University of Bremen - Holmead Foundation"
• 2006 - Gallery d'Alquen, Schnoor, Bremen
• 2006 - Gallery Hellhof, Ars Vivendi, Kronberg im Taunus
• 2005 - Gallery Garanin, Essen
• 2004 - Marterburg 53, University of the Arts Bremen
• 2004 - Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
• 2003 - Art in the Seidemann Room, Bremen
• 2003 - Shippensburg University, PA
• 2002 - Gallery Petra Lange, Berlin
• 2002 - Museum Streitkirche, Ars Vivendi, Kronberg im Taunus
• 2001 - Berlin Cathedral, "Biblical themes in art"
• 2001 - Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt am Main
• 2001 - Gallery Petra Lange - in the House of the Association of Berlin Artists, Berlin
• 2001 - Villa Ichon, Bremen
• 1999 - Gallery Ars Vivendi, Kronberg im Taunus
• 1998 - Böttcherstrasse Art Collections, Paula Modersohn-Becker House, Bremen
• 1992 - Municipal Gallery, Haus Coburg, Delmenhorst
• 1992 - Gallery Joseph Hierling, Munich
• 1991 - Klostermühle Hude, Eitorf
• 1990 - Marburg University Museum
• 1990 - Kunstforening Oslo
• 1990 - Kunstamt Wedding, Berlin
• 1988 - Hilger Gallery, Vienna
• 1986 - Gallery Döbele, Ravensburg
• 1983 - Gallery Schildergasse, Cologne
• 1982 - Gallery Rolf Ohse, Bremen
• 1982 - Gallery Ebel, Frankfurt am Main
• 1978 - Kunsthalle Bremen
• 1976 - Horizons Modern Art Gallery, Brussels
• 1974 - Gallery Albert 1er, Brussels
• 1973 - Gallery Montjoie, Brussels
• 1972 - Galerie du Bateau Ivre, Brussels
• 1972 - Gallery Montjoie, Brussels
• 1972 - Entremonde Gallery, Paris
• 1971 - Pierre Vanderborght Gallery, Brussels
• 1969 - Reflets, Galerie d'Art, Brussels
• 1957 - Breughel Gallery, Brussels
• 1955 - Charles Barzansky Galleries, New York
• 1954 - Wellons Gallery, New York
• 1949 - Babcock Galleries, New York
• 1944 - Art Association, Rockport/Mass
• 1940 - Kunstforeningen, Oslo
• 1940 - Société Anonyme, Hartford, Connecticut
• 1939 - Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels
• 1939 - Société Anonyme, Springfield, Massachusetts
• 1937 - Art dealer G.J. Nieuwenhuizen Seegar, The Hague
• 1936 - Montross Gallery, New York
• 1934 - Montross Gallery, New York
• 1933 - Heinemann Gallery, Munich
• 1933 - Montross Gallery, New York
• 1932 - Galleries of an American Group Barbizon Plaza, New York
• 1931 - Durand-Ruel Gallery, New York
• 1931 - Galleries of an American Group Barbizon Plaza, New York
• 1930 - Durand-Ruel Gallery, New York
• 1929 - Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
• 1928 - Montross Gallery, New York
• 1928 - Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
• 1928 - Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
• 1928 - Brooklyn Museum, New York
• 1928 - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
• 1927 - Montross Gallery, New York
• 1927 - Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
• 1926 - Montross Gallery, New York
• 1926 - Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
• 1923 - Provincetown Art Association, Massachusetts