Nay enters the boarding school of Schulpforta in Thuringia, beginning interest in modern art and first attempts at painting.
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1921
High school diploma in Schulpforta and return to Berlin; starts apprenticeship for the book trade at the bookshop Gsellius in Berlin, paints in his free time.
1922
Breaks off his apprenticeship, paints his first self-portrait.
1924
Nay paints his first self-taught landscapes and portraits and presents three of his paintings to Carl Hofer at the Akademie für bildende Künste, Berlin and receives a
scholarship at the Akademie für bildende Künste, where he attends the painting class of Carl Hofer.
1927
Nay becomes Hofer’s "Meisterschüler" and receives his own studio at the academy.
First participations in group exhibitions and first acquisition of a landscape painting by the Provinzial-Museum in Hannover.
Paul Westheim, publisher of the periodical "Das Kunstblatt" notices Nay