Born 1931 in Tübingen,
died 1997 in Sachsen-Anhalt;

EDUCATION
1953 – 1955 training as a photographer in Berlin
1956 – 1997  freelance artist

1948-1952  frequent changes of location: Oct.1948-March 1949 Milan; April-Nov. 1949 Rome; Nov. 1949-Mai 1950 Paris; May 1950-Feb. 1952 New York; June-July 1952 Vienna. Brom works as warehouseman, shop assistant, helper in a  garage. Brom starts to draw and buys his first camera in New York. In the years 1949-1952 he produces pencil-sketches and black and white prints.
1952 Brom returns to Germany, training as a photographer in Berlin.
1954 Brom takes the job of photographic assistant  at the Free University of Berlin. In this same year he develops the first folios of his  „Anatomical Studies“, which consist of anatomical sketches overworked with coal. During this year he also produces first sketches for installations.
1954/55: „Anatomical Studies“ and installations. The sketches for the installation „Cesare“ contain for the first time tonal elements, which he produces with piezo-pic-ups.
1955 Brom finishes his work on ADAM.
1962 Death of his parents, which leads him into an existential crisis. Brom cancels his job at the photo laboratory of the university and stops painting. He moves to Paris.
1963 Brom takes a job at a little photo laboratory in the north of Paris.
1963-1969: Brom shoots some Super8-shortfilms. In this years he develops a scenic-dramaturgic element which becomes significant for Broms work.
1969 Brom starts again to draw. In October he meets the physicist V. Krylov for the first time. He participates in the discussions which Krylov organises in his flat. Brom paints his first folios of the serie „Cuts“, in which he deals with particle-physics. From 1969 to 1974 he produces  143 such folios. 
1969-1973 besides his work on the „cuts“, Brom overworks geographic maps with coal, named „topographies“.
1973 Brom returns to Berlin, where he works again in a photographical laboratory.
1974 Brom is involved in a car crash and badly injured. He is set to deep-sleep, and awakes only some months later.
1974/75 Brom spends the end of 1974 and the year 1975 in a rehabilitation centre near Heidelberg. In this time a lot of Brom’s artwork disappeared. Because of gaps in Brom’s memory a lot of his works are untraceable until now.
1976 After his stay near Heidelberg, Brom returns to Berlin where he resumes his artistic work. He produces the first sketches for the series “on the fundamentals of physics”. In the same year he also develops the objects „ADAM“ and „EVA“, as well as the showcases „Pelzwerkzeuge“ (fury-tools).
1977 an atelier in Vienna is offered to him. He moves to Vienna where he gets to know some Viennese artists. During this year Brom works on pictures for  the series “on the fundamentals of physics “, the cycle “vrt“ and for the first time also some performances; the performance „vrt“, and his first „Höhlenaktionen“  were realised in Vienna. In autumn Brom starts the project  „Brockhausüberarbeitung“, which he keeps him occupied until 1981.
1978 Brom returns to Berlin. He is offered a job as a photographer at the institute for ethnology at the Free University which he accepts. In 1978 he makes first studies for the paintings „modularer Mensch“ and produces besides the clay-objects „Anthropomorphe“ as well the  „Stammbaumfragmente“.
1979 Brom established the first „Theorieraum“; he starts the series of installations „AUS KRYLOVS LABOR“ and develops paintings on blackboard fragments and the installation „Transformator“.
1979/80 Brom arranges more „Theorieräume“. He also works on the paintings „T1-T17“, and the „wissenschaftlichen Tafeln 1-12“. In all these objects and paintings Brom deals with the concept of scientific theory creation and the role of the human being involved in it.
1981 Brom participates in a field excursion of the ethnological institute. Later on he works on his paintings of the „wissenschaftlichen Tafeln“. In this year, as well as in the following he develops the cycle „Fig. 1-Fig. 25“.
1983 Brom travels to Italy together with the physicist Prof. V. Krylov.
1985-1990 Brom works on small black and white prints
1990 Brom declared his retirement after a cholelithotomy.
1991 he moves to Heimburg.
1997 he dies in his little house in Heimburg.


EXHIBITIONS
2008
O`Artotheca (Mailand): Ricordando Milano
ESC (Graz): C.I. Brom. Homo sapiens

2007
PMK (Innsbruck): „Transformator“
Stellwerk (Innsbruck) „Cesare“
Tonspur (Vienna): „Transformator“

2006
Kunsthalle Exnergasse (Vienna): „Theorieraum VI“

1983
Galerie Haberl (Vienna):  „Theorieraum XI“