Born on 8 August in St. Ulrich in Val Gardena, South Tyrol.

Works as a woodcarver and draughtsman on church interiors. His first poems are written.

Attends Prof. Renzo Grazzini’s classes as a guest student at the Istituto d’Arte Porta Romana in Florence.

First extended stays in Paris. Meets Alberto Giacometti.

Begins teaching art, first at the middle school and later at the art school in St. Ulrich. He leaves teaching in 1971 to work as a freelance artist. From 1961 onward, he travels extensively throughout Europe as well as to the USSR, the United States, Canada, Egypt and Israel.

Marries Annemarie Höglinger. Their daughter Saskia is born. His first etchings are produced in the workshop of the artist Robert Scherer in Brixen, South Tyrol. He acquires his own intaglio press.

Writes poetry regularly, especially during the 1960s and 1970s. His first poems are published in magazines in South and North Tyrol. His daughter Alma is born.

Becomes a member of the Vienna Secession, on the recommendation of its then president Georg Eisler and Alfred Hrdlicka, remaining until 1975.

Works at Franco Cioppi’s Laboratorio d’arte grafica in Rome. Together with Erich Demetz, he purchases the Moarhof in Laion, South Tyrol.

Co-founds the South Tyrolean cultural magazine Arunda with Hans Wielander, the sculptor Michael Höllrigl and others. Moves with his family to Salzburg, where he meets the poet H.C. Artmann, beginning a friendship that lasts many years.

Stays in Berlin. He subsequently lives in Vienna, Laion in South Tyrol and Augsburg.

Moves into a live-work studio with an adjoining print workshop in Bolzano.

Together with Paul Flora, he endows the international Norbert C. Kaser Prize for contemporary poetry, founded by the Bücherwürmer association in Lana. On the recommendation of architect Hermann Trebo, Raiffeisen Landesbank Südtirol AG in Bolzano commissions him to create a mural for its new building, which he designs with motifs from the Dolomite legends.

Awarded the honorary title Cavaliere della Repubblica Italiana.

Invited by its president Wieland Schmied to serve as a visiting professor at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg, teaching printmaking with the Prague artist Adriena Šimotová. From then until 2010, he lives and works alternately in Vienna and Bolzano.

With the generous support of art collector Peter Infeld and Viennese gallerist Ernst Hilger, he begins the visual realisation of Dante Alighieri’s Divina Commedia. By 2000, nine completed sketchbooks, numerous monotypes, drawings and individual etchings, as well as the portfolios Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso, are created, with etchings for each canto of the Divina Commedia. The first part of this three-part portfolio is dedicated to Verena Kammerer, his partner at the time.

Receives the Order of Merit of the State of Tyrol. Meets Renate Maruschko, who remains his companion until the end of his life.

Awarded the Walther von der Vogelweide Prize.

Awarded honorary citizenship by the University of Innsbruck.

Markus Vallazza dies in Bolzano on 21 April after a long illness.