A Fischinger Celebration - Benefit Art Exhibition and Reception
Tuesday, September 23rd, 19h
Goethe Institut Los Angeles
5750 Wilshire Blvd. #100, Los Angeles, CA

Benefit Art Exhibition and Reception. Celebrating Elfriede Fischinger on her 100th Birthday.

Hosted by Center for Visual Music in association with Goethe Institut and The Fischinger Trust.

Join us for a celebration of the life of Elfriede Fischinger (1910-1999), widow of the avant-garde filmmaker and painter Oskar Fischinger. This special evening features an Art Exhibition of selected photographs, artifacts and Paintings by Oskar Fischinger, a Reception, and Home Movies and Videos of Elfriede. Highlights include Oskar’s first Stereo Painting (1949), The Lumigraph film (1970) by Elfriede, and unshot animation drawings by Oskar. Proceeds from the evening, which includes a silent auction, will benefit the Fischinger preservation, conservation and digitization work underway at Center for Visual Music, a nonprofit 501(c) 3 archive dedicated to preserving and promoting the Fischinger films and legacy.

Tickets available through www.cvm.eventbrite.com or through Center for Visual Music. MAP and other details also at www.cvm.eventbrite.com

Info soon on the silent auction items.

Can't attend? Please consider making a donation of the ticket price ($40) to the Fischinger preservation and digitization project. Your donation is tax deductible; Center for Visual Music is a 501(c)3 nonprofit. You can donate online here, or contact CVM for additional methods: www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Fischinger/FundingNeeds.htm

Images from Oil paintings by Oskar Fischinger, to be exhibited at the Fischinger Celebration. Images (c) Fischinger Trust