1928 | born in St. Gallen |
1944-47 | wood sculptor apprenticeship |
1949/50 | worked as a forestry worker and stone carver |
1951/52 | studies at the art school in Bernstein as a student of Hans Pfeiffer, Riccarda Gohr and HAP Grieshaber |
1952 | freelance sculptor |
1958 | Upper Swabian Youth Art Prize |
1960 | the German Art Prize of Youth |
1961 | co-founder of the Neue Württembergische Gruppe (with Roland Dörfler, Emil Cimiotti, Robert Förch, Erich Hauser and Emil Kiess) |
1965 | the Villa Romana Prize Florence |
1970 | Participation in the international sculpture symposium "Forma Viva" in Slovenia |
1977 | participation in the wood sculpture symposium in Freiburg im Breisgau |
1995 | died in Dietingen, district of Rottweil |
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| Franz Bucher was a member of the German Artists' Association and an extraordinary member of the Artists' Association of Baden-Württemberg |