Adolf Fleischmann (German 1892-1968)
Adolf Fleischmann is an important German abstract artist whose artistic development took place in Paris and New York. The 1920's saw him being influenced by Cubism and Expressionism but in 1933 he was forced to emmigrate, his work being labled 'Degenerate'. Towards the end of the 1930s, his compositions built with elegant arabesques and curbs developed into a rigid geometry as he painted his typical L- shaped forms which he later labelled His sole use of horizontal and vertical lines, showing affinities with Mondrian's 'neo-plasticism', profiled him as an abstract artist and it was as such that he appeared at the 1945 Paris Salon des Surindépendants.
