| 15.04.1910 |
René Louis Bernasconi is born as son of Emilio Edoardo and Anna (né Klein) in Strassbourg, France |
| 1916 |
starting his first drawings and sketches |
| 1919 |
Winner of the school competition in painting |
| 1926 – 1930 |
Apprenticeship as lithographer in Turin, Italy |
| 1931 – 1934 |
Studies in Paris and South of France (Workshop with Picasso) |
| 09.12.1933 |
Wedding with Linda Mathilde Dolla in Grasse, France |
| 1943 – 1946 |
Military service in Switzerland (Regiment of Ticino) |
| 1946 |
René, his wife and 4 kids moved to Basel |
| 13.09.1955 |
Divorce of René and Mathilde |
| 1955 – 1956 |
Grant of Fine Arts from Basel-Stadt |
| 1960 |
Individual exhibition, Museo Civico di Belle Arti, Lugano, TI |
| 1963 |
TV production: TSI Tavoletta |
| 1964 – 1994 |
Laure Bohrer-Iselin (partner / muse) |
| 1965 |
glass-ceramics (vitraux) |
| 1965 – 1972 |
public-works projects for Fine Arts from Basel-Stadt and Baudepartement Basel-Stadt |
| 1967 |
Mural Relief for St. Alban School in Basel (Baudepartement Basel-Stadt) |
| 1968 |
Mural fresco on cement for the girls secondary school in Basel |
| 1970 |
Madonna portrait for chapel in Carona, TI |
| 1970 |
Mural painting for Canonica & Lotti in Frenkendorf, BL |
| 1983 |
WHO’S WHO in the Arts and Literature, 3. Ausgabe, 3 Bände – Edition Austria – Germany – Switzerland |
| 1983 |
Mural painting with sundial, Dr. Augustin-Haus, Allschwil, BL |
| 1985 |
Short Movie, TSI, Ludovic Kessler |
| 1989 |
Publication: Der Maler René Bernasconi, ISBN 978-3796508943 |
| 04.10.1994 |
Death in Basel |
| 2004 |
Publication: René B., René Bernasconi 1910 bis 1994: Sein Leben – sein Werk, ISBN 978-3796520464 |
| 2013 |
Publication: Kleine Reise durch das Oeuvre von René Bernasconi, ISBN 978-3037840351 |
