Fischbach Gallery

Art gallery, New York, N.Y. Operated by Aladar Marberger. Founded ca. 1954. In the 1960s, specialized in minimalist painters; during the 1970s the focus turned to painterly, representational realists and minimalist sculpture.

From the description of Fischbach Gallery records, 1954-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122571094

Fischbach Gallery, founded ca. 1954, is an art gallery in New York, N.Y.

Operated by Aladar Marberger. In the 1960s, specialized in minimalist painters; during the 1970s the focus turned to painterly, representational realists and minimalist sculpture.

From the description of Fischbach Gallery records, 1937-1977, bulk 1963-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 710018237

The Fischbach Gallery was founded in 1960 by Marilyn Cole Fischbach at 799 Madison Avenue in New York City. The gallery was noted for its stable of minimalist young artists in the 1960s, and the work of the painterly realists in the 1970s. The gallery remains open today.

During its early years, the gallery was among the first to focus on 1960s avant-garde and minimalist artists. Marilyn possessed a talent for discovering young artists and for helping them advance their careers. Many of these young artists became well-known including Ronald Bladen, Eva Hesse, and Alex Katz. Other artists represented by the gallery include Allan D'Arcangelo, Les Levine, Robert Mangold, Robert Ryman, George Sugarman, and Robert Swain.

The gallery also had an active exhibition schedule and organized and hosted group exhibitions of modern art including "According to the Letter" (1963), "Hard Center" (1963), and "Direct Representation" (1969). Additionally, the Fishbach Gallery hosted "Eccentric Abstraction" in 1966, an exhibition organized by Lucy Lippard.

Later, the gallery moved to W. 57th Street in Manhattan. Fischbach hired A. Aladar Marberger as director of the gallery. Under his direction, the Fischbach Gallery shifted from the avant-garde to contemporary American realism and minimalist sculpture. In the 1980s, Marilyn Fischbach brought three investors into the gallery. She remined a co-owner, but lived in Paris, France for many years prior to her death at the age of seventy-two. The Fischbach Gallery remains open at 210 West 11th Street at 25th Street in New York City.

From the guide to the Fischbach Gallery records, 1937-1977, bulk 1963-1977, (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)