Adolf Fleischmann, who is represented by a significant group of artworks in the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection, was an outstanding abstract artist of Germany and the USA in the post-1945 period. Featuring around one hundred artworks, and spanning three decades of the artist’s work, this comprehensive publication presents the artist’s major work from his 1952-1975 New York period, supplemented by representative pictures created in Europe in the 1940s. The accompanying Essay offers a thorough examination of Fleischmann’s artwork in the context of the American Abstract painting scene of the period.
First publishing of historical art critical texts by Renate Wiehager, Raymond Bayer, Carlo Belloli, Benedikt Fred Dolbin, Adolf Fleischmann, Sanson Flexor, Roger van Gindertael, Eugen Gomringer, Kurt Leonhard, Thomas Schnalke, Michel Seuphor, Dario Suo
