- 1933 born in Germersheim / Rhineland-Palatinate on the 8th of November
- 1934–1952 childhood, school years and Abitur (higher education entrance qualification) in Neumarkt i.d. Opf. / Upper Palatinate
- 1952–1958 higher education of art at theAcademy of Fine Arts, Munich, including two semesters of art education in the class of Anton Marxmüller. From 1953 on in the sculpture class of Heinrich Kirchner, ultimately as a master student; contact with academy professor Toni Stadler
- 1957 closer contact with Heimrad Prem and Helmut Sturm; he meets HP Zimmer at the Academy.
- 1957/1958 co-founder of the artist collective SPUR
- 1958 skiing vacation in Kitzbühel / Austria, first informal snow sculpture
- 1959 three-month Rome scholarship awarded by the Arnoldsche Stiftung; he marries Christel Zakrzewski in Lübeck
- 1959–1962 member of the Situationist International (S.I.)
- 1960 Youth Art Award for Sculpture, Mannheim
- 1961 Villa Massimo Scholarship, Rome
- 1963–1994 member of the Association of German Artists
- 1964 participation in the documenta III, Kassel
- 1965 collaboration of SPUR with the Munich based group WIR. The joint magazine SPUR WIR is published.
- 1966 the groups SPUR and WIR adopt the common group name GEFLECHT. Fischer distances himself from the group.
- 1967 Schwabing Art Award, Munich
- 1968 Palatinate Art Award
- 1971 Advancement Award of the City of Munich for Sculpture
- 1972 Art Award of the City of Darmstadt
- 1975–1997 professor of sculpture at the University of Arts, Berlin
- 1980–1984 workshops at the academies of Linz / Austria (1980), Heusden near ’s-Hertogenbosch Groningen / Netherlands (1981), Academy for Teachers' Advanced Training, Dillingen (1982)
- 1984 teaching activity at the Summer Academy Salzburg
- 1990 Art Award of the German Federal State of Rhineland-Palatinate
- 1991–2004 member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
- 2000 Cultural Award of the City of Neumarkt i.d. Opf.
- 2002 the Lothar & Christel Fischer Foundation is established in Neumarkt i.d. Opf.
- 2004 Lothar Fischer dies in Baierbrunn near Munich on the 15th of June shortly before the opening of the Museum Lothar Fischer, Neumarkt i.d. Opf.
Literature (selection)
Ilonka Czerny, »Bilden heißt nicht abbilden«, in: Künstler. Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, Ausgabe 38, München 1997.
Pia Dornacher (Hrsg.), Lothar Fischer. Das plastische Werk 1953–1998. Werkverzeichnis, Bramsche 1998
Pia Dornacher und Selima Niggl (Hrsg.), Lothar Fischer. Das plastische Werk 1953–2004. Werkverzeichnis, erweiterte Neuauflage, Neumarkt i.d. OPf. 2013.
Pia Dornacher (Hrsg.), Museum Lothar Fischer in Neumarkt i. d. OPf., Prestel Museumsführer, München, Berlin, London, New York 2004.
Lothar Fischer, Zur Kunst aus bildnerischer Sicht, Waakirchen 2001, 2. Aufl. 2004.
Thorsten Rodiek (Hrsg.), Lothar Fischer. Plastiken und Zeichnungen aus 40 Jahren, Bramsche 1995.
Die Angaben wurden in leicht überarbeiteter Form entnommen aus: Ilonka Czerny, „Künstlerbiografien, Ausstellungen der Gruppe SPUR, Literatur zur Gruppe SPUR“, in: Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker und Pia Dornacher (Hrsg.), Gruppe SPUR, Ausst.-Kat. Museum Villa Stuck, München u.a., Ostfildern 2006, S. 90–97