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Music is not limited to the world of sound. There exists a music of the visual world. — Oskar Fischinger,1951
Oskar Wilhelm Fischinger (June 22, 1900 – January 31, 1967) was a German-American abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter, notable for creating abstract musical animation many decades before the appearance of computer graphics and music videos.
Jun 22, 2017 · Learn more about the creation of Oskar Fischinger’s 117th Birthday Doodle and discover the story behind the unique artwork.
. Fischinger created over 800 paintings in his lifetime. Many are in major museums and collections worldwide, including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Solomon Guggenheim Museum New York, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena CA; and Yale University's Art Gallery.
Abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter Oskar Fischinger created abstract musical animations decades before the appearance of computer graphics and music videos.
Sep 28, 2014 · Oskar Fischinger is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, embracing the abstraction that became the major art movement of that century, and exploring the new technology of the cinema to open abstract painting into a new Visual Music that performs in liquid time. — Biographer William Moritz.
Oskar Fischinger was born on the summer solstice in 1900 in Gelnhausen, Germany. He originally chose music as a career, studying violin and organ building (which attracted him because it combined precise knowledge of technical processes with mathematical harmonic theory) before 1914.
Oct 30, 2021 · German animator Oskar Fischinger gave life to abstract shapes by exploring the relationship between sound and image. He created an influential series of experimental short films featuring circles, squares, and lines that appeared to dance to music.
Oskar Fischinger. Oskar Fischinger was born on the summer solstice in 1900 in Gelnhausen, Germany. Around 1920 in Frankfurt, he met Dr. Bernhard Diebold at a literary club; seeing Fischinger's abstract scroll sketches, Diebold urged him to take up abstract filmmaking.
Oskar Fischinger - Longer Bio. Oskar Fischinger originally chose music as a career, studying violin and organ building (for mathematical harmonic theory) before 1914. Too young and unhealthy for war duty, he was forced to learn architectural drafting and tool design.
