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| 1900 |
Born in Gelnhausen, Germany |
| 1917-21 |
Organ builder, architectural
draftsman, tool designer, engineer, designer |
| 1920 |
Influenced by Dr. Bernhard
Diebold of Frankfurt to explore cinematic techniques in making art |
| 1921 |
Met Walter Ruttman in
Frankfurt. Invented animation device |
| Renounced easel painting as an
artform of the past |
|
| Turned to abstract animated
film, called Chronography |
|
| 1922-25 |
Went to Munich; opened
production studio and completed first animated abstract film studies
synchronized to music |
| 1926 |
Moved to Berlin; worked for
U.F.A. on science fiction film |
| 1929 |
Drew Broken Leg series while
recovering from accident |
| Left UFA and devotes efforts to
absolute abstract films |
|
| Worked on advertisement and
special effects for Fritz Lang’s Woman
in the Moon |
|
| 1928-32 |
Produced Studies #5-12 film,
including 5000 drawings, coordinated with music |
| 1930-31 |
Hired assistants. Explored
drawing on film for synthetic sound production |
| 1933 |
Produced film Muratti Marches
On for Tolirag Advertising Agency |
| 1935 |
Composition
in Blue film
awarded Grand Prix in Venice Festival of Arts |
| Composition
in Blue and Study
#8 awarded prizes at Brussels Film Festival; also condemned by
the
Nazi regime |
|
| 1936 |
Fled Nazi Germany |
| Came to Hollywood on contract to
Paramount; produced Allegretto |
|
| Re-addressed easel painting |
|
| 1937 |
Produced An Optical Poem for M.G.M. |
| Began easel works. Painted
Experiment |
|
| 1938 |
Traveled to New York for a
commission for full-length abstract animation film (unsuccessful) |
| Returned to Hollywood and
collaborated with Leopold Stokowski at Disney Studios on animation
film: Fantasia; resigned
after his work was altered |
|
| 1940 |
Received Guggenheim grant |
| Produced series of paintings and
3 films, including An American March |
|
| 1941-42 |
Worked at Mercury Productions:
Orson Welles; produced Radio Dynamics |
| 1942 |
Through Galka Scheyer met John
Cage; planned collaborations |
| 1947 |
Completes last personal film Motion Painting No. 1 |
| 1949 |
Awarded Grand Prix at Brussels
First International Experimental Film Competition |
| 1967 |
Died in Los Angeles, painting at
his easel |
| 1938 |
Philip C. Boyer Gallery, New
York, NY |
| Karl Nierendorf Gallery, New
York, NY |
|
| 1940 |
Stendhal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1947 |
American Contemporary Gallery,
Hollywood, CA |
| 1949 |
Art Center College of Design,
Los Angeles, CA |
| 1950 |
Forsythe Gallery, Hollywood, CA |
| 1951 |
San Francisco Museum of Art, San
Francisco, CA |
| Frank Perls Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA |
|
| 1953 |
The
World of Oskar Fischinger, San
Francisco Museum of Art, San
Francisco, CA |
| 1956 |
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA |
| 1963-64 |
Ernest Raboff Gallery,
Hollywood, CA |
| 1965 |
American City Bank, Los Angeles,
CA |
| 1966 |
Drew Gallery, Pasadena, CA |
| 1970 |
Bildmusik,
Long Beach
Museum of Art, Long
Beach, CA |
| 1971 |
Goethe Center, San Francisco, CA |
| The Egg and the Eye Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 1973 |
Oskar
Fischinger 1900-1967, Occidental
College Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA |
| 1977 |
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Montréal, Canada |
| 1980-81 |
Abstraction:
Towards a New Art Film 1910-30, London, England |
| 1982 |
Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA |
| 1983 |
Optische Poesie, Deutches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 1985 |
Oskar Fischinger: Experiments with Animation, Cambridge Animation Festival, Cambridge UK |
| 1988 |
Oskar
Fischinger: A Retrospective, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles,
CA |
| 1990 |
Galerie Kroner, Wiesbaden,
Germany |
| 1991 |
Oskar
Fischinger: Light, Space and Rhythm, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los
Angeles CA |
| 1993 |
Optische Poesie, Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 1994 |
Luckman Fine Arts Gallery,
California State College at Los Angeles, CA |
| 1998 |
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los
Angeles CA |
| 2005 |
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles CA |
| Goethe Institute, Washington DC |
| 1945 |
The Museum of Non-Objective
Painting (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation), New York, NY |
| 1947 |
Abstract
and Surrealist American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago,
IL |
| San Francisco Museum of Art, San
Francisco, CA |
|
| American Contemporary Gallery,
Hollywood, CA (with Jules Engel & Herb Klynn) |
|
| 1949 |
California
Centennial Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los
Angeles, CA |
| 1951 |
Contemporary
Painting in the United States, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Los Angeles, CA |
| 1952 |
Artists
of Los Angeles and Vicinity, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Los Angeles, CA |
| 1959 |
Los Angeles County Museum of
Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA |
|
| 1961 |
Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA |
| 1963 |
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long
Beach, CA |
| Dickinson Art Center, University
of California, Los Angeles, CA |
|
| Fischer Art Gallery, University
of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA |
|
| 1964 |
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long
Beach, CA |
| 1976-77 |
Painting
and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
| 1982 |
L'Art
du Cinema Animation, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal,
Canada |
| 1986 |
Aspects of California Modernism,
Washington, DC |
| 1990-92 |
Turning
the Tide: Early Los Angeles Modernists 1920-1956, Laguna Art
Museum, CA; Oakland Museum, Oakland CA; Marion Koogler McNay Art
Institute, San Antonio, TX; Nora Eccles Harrison Art Museum, Utah State
University, Logan, UT; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA;
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA |
| 1992-93 |
Theme
and Improvisation: Kandinsky and the American Avant-Garde 1912-1950,
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton OH; Phillips Collection, Washington DC;
Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL; Amon Carter Museum, Ft.
Worth, TX |
| 1996 |
On
the Edge of America: California Modernist Art, Jack Rutberg Fine
Arts, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2000 |
Made
in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000, Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| California
Modernism and Abstraction, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
|
| Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach,
CA |
|
| 2001 |
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los
Angeles, CA |
| 2002 |
Pasadena Museum of California
Art, Pasadena, CA |
| 2004-05 |
Sons
et Lumières, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France |
| 2005 |
Visual
Music, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; The
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garde, Washington, DC |
| The
First 80 Years, Gallery 825, Beverly Hills, CA |
|
| 2006 |
The Laguna Art Museum, Laguna
Beach, CA |
| Driven
to Abstraction, Riverside Museum of Art, Riverside, CA |
|
| 2006-10 |
The
Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, Hammer
Museum, Los Angeles, CA; The Phillips Collection, Washington DC; Dallas
Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville,
TN; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT |