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ARTISTS / Art after 1945
Adolf Fleischmann

In the New York studio in 1956; photo: Adolf Fleischmann estate

1892	born in Esslingen on the Neckar River
1908-11	Studies at the School of Arts and Crafts in Stuttgart
1911-13	Studies at the Art Academy in Stuttgart with Adolf Hölzel, among others
1919-21	Studies at the Academy of Arts in Munich with Karl Caspar
1933-38	Stayed in Mallorca and Ischia / Italy
1938-40	Moves to Paris. Joins the artist group l'Équipe
1940-45	Escape from Paris; repeated internment
1946	Member of the Réalités Nouvelles in Paris
1948	Participation in the Salon des Indépendants
1952	Moves to New York
1953-66	Participation in the AAA-Group-Shows (American Abstract Artists) in New York
1966	Return to Stuttgart
1968	died in Stuttgart

Adolf Fleischmann is considered a precursor of Op(tical) Art. Fleischmann's engagement with Constructivism culminated in the primacy of color design, which resulted in the penetration of pictorial space according to the optical laws of color. Beginning in 1950, Fleischmann used rod-shaped color elements in horizontal and vertical storage in conjunction with isolated individual accents. The structure does not remain surface-related. The picture builds up in several layers of irrational spatiality from backward to forward. An energetically charged vibration is the result and the "painterly" remains decisive. The result leads to a dynamization of the senses and to an internalization of the optical stimuli, best comparable to the fugue in music.

Composition # 109, 1958
130 × 104 cm →

Diamond, 1966
74 × 60 cm →

Fragment, 1966
64,5 × 50 cm →

Homage à Arp, 1964
49,5 × 40 cm →

In the round, 1964
46,3 × 46,3 cm →

Light blue octant, 1966
65 × 50 cm →

Opus 301, 1962
102 × 76 cm →

Pink in oval, 1966
74 × 60 cm →

Study on "Hommage á Delaunay & Gleize", 1988
16,5 × 8,7 cm →

Untitled, 1955
70,5 × 50 cm →

Untitled, 1959
62 × 47,9 cm →

Untitled, 1965

Untitled (Heidelberg 1963), 1963
85,5 × 59,7 cm →

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ARTISTS / Art after 1945Adolf Fleischmann

ARTISTS / Art after 1945
Adolf Fleischmann