27-01-1937 | Born in Voorburg as the daughter of Elly Richard, painter, and Bernard Blom, engineer. |
1948-1954 | Attends the Montessori Lyceum in Rotterdam |
1954-1957 | Attends the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague |
1955 | Wins the first prize in a competition for a tile commemorating the tenth anniversary of the liberation of Holland. The tile is produced in a run of 20,000 copies. |
1957-1959 | Attends the State Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam. |
1959 | Marries the medical student Eylard van Hall, now emeritus professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Leiden University Medical Cent. |
1960, 1962, 1966 | Her children Eric, Jurriaan and Eva are born. |
1969 | Shares the Jacob den Hartogh Material Award with the Belgian sculptor Jules Vermeire. |
1969-1970 | Spends a year with the family in the United States; takes a course in new materials at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C. |
1972 | Moves to Noordwijk, where she has lived and worked since. |
1974 | Daughter Eva dies. |
1979-2012 | Starts paying frequent working visits to Pietrasanta, Italy (Studio Sem). |
1983 | Retrospective exhibition at the Center of Fine Arts De Beyerd in Breda. Publication of monography Maja van Hall: sculpture of the past twenty years (© 1983, De Beyerd, Breda and Gary Schwarz, Maarssen) |
1984-1994 | Teacher, later head of Sculpture Department, Academy of Fine Arts, Enschede |
1985 | Attends Anthony Caro workshop, Jan van Eyk Academy, Maastricht. |
1997 | Retrospective exhibition on the occasion of her 60th life year in the Artists Association Pulchri Studio in The Hague. Publication of monography Maja van Hall - Een Beeld (© 1997, van Lindonk Productions, Maarssen) |
2005-2012 | Member Sculpture Network |
2005 | Publication of monography Maja van Hall - In Beeld (© 2005, Hallart Foundation, Noordwijk) |
2007-2012 | Member, later fellow Royal British Society of Sculptors |
2012 | Retrospective exhibition My work is my biography: the sculpture of Maja van Hall on the occasion of her 75th life year in Museum Beelden aan Zee in Scheveningen, The Hague. (2012) |
2012 | Publication of monography Maja van Hall (© 2012, WBooks, Zwolle/Sculpture Institute, Scheveningen) |