Holiday in Morocco to escape the celebration of his 80th birthday.

Met Marguerite Yourcenar for the first time after more than 75 years in Amsterdam (The Netherlands).

The first volume of his book appeared in DuMont Verlag (Cologne) as "Handbuch zur Technik der Malerei" (Handbook of the painting technique).

Creation of the Egon von Vietinghoff Foundation with its own collection of paintings (never offered for sale) for future exhibitions and documentation of the continuity of the European painting tradition.

In spring health crisis; in summer last intensive working phase.

After 70 years of artistic creation, he stopped painting in September due to problems with his health and decreasing concentration.

Second edition of his handbook appeared.

In September, concussion following a bad fall. He was tired but still very entertaining spending three weeks in bed.

On October 14, he died peacefully in his flat of an old lung emphysema, after three days in a coma under morphine, he died peacefully in his flat of pneumonia, already having wished for his own death for a while.