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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.
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.
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 was a German abstract artist and animated film pioneer, who was a key innovator in abstract animation set to music, and one of the first artists whose work allied high art with mass culture.
Music is not limited to the world of sound. There exists a music of the visual world. — Oskar Fischinger,1951
Jun 22, 2017 · The very first Doodle launched as an “out of office” message of sorts when company founders Larry and Sergey went on vacation. Learn more about the creation of Oskar Fischinger’s 117th Birthday Doodle and discover the story behind the unique artwork.
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Sep 28, 2014 · An Oskar Fischinger Retrospective. Decades before computer graphics, before music videos, even before Fantasia (the 1940 version), there were the abstract animated films of Oskar Fischinger (1900 - 1967), master of ‘absolute’ or nonobjective filmmaking.
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