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Eric Fischl was born on 9 March, 1948 in New York City, US, is an American painter and sculptor. Discover Eric Fischl's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 76 years old?

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Age 76 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 9 March 1948
Birthday 9 March
Birthplace New York City, US
Nationality United States

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1928

Haus Esters is a 1928 home, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1928 to be a private home.

It now houses changing exhibitions.

Fischl refurbished it as a home (though not particularly in Bauhaus style) and hired models who, for several days, pretended to be a couple who lived there.

1948

Eric Fischl (born March 9, 1948) is an American painter, sculptor, printmaker, draughtsman and educator.

1967

Fischl was born in New York City and grew up on suburban Long Island; his family moved to Phoenix, Arizona, in 1967.

His art education began at Phoenix College for two years, followed with studying at Arizona State University.

1970

He is known for his paintings depicting American suburbia from the 1970s and 1980s.

1972

Followed by studying at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, where he received a B.F.A. in 1972.

He then moved to Chicago, taking a job as a guard at the Museum of Contemporary Art.

1974

Between 1974 and 1978 he taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

It was at this school where he met his future wife, painter April Gornik.

1978

In 1978, he moved back to New York City.

Fischl is a trustee and senior critic at the New York Academy of Art and President of the Academy of the Arts at Guild Hall of East Hampton.

1979

Some of Fischl's earlier works have a theme of adolescent sexuality and voyeurism, such as Sleepwalker (1979) which depicts an adolescent boy masturbating into a children's pool.

1981

Bad Boy (1981) and Birthday Boy (1983) both depict young boys looking at older women shown in provocative poses on a bed.

In Bad Boy, the subject is surreptitiously slipping his hand into a purse.

In Birthday Boy, the child is depicted naked on the bed.

1994

In addition to receiving Guild Hall's Academy of the Art's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994, Fischl was extended the honor of membership to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006.

Fischl has embraced the description of himself as a painter of the suburbs, not generally considered appropriate subject matter prior to his generation.

2000

In 2000 he moved to Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York with his wife, landscapist April Gornik, where they share a home and matching studios.

2002

In 2002, Fischl collaborated with the Museum Haus Esters in Krefeld, Germany.

2004

He took 2,000 photographs, which he reworked digitally and used as the basis for a series of paintings, one of which, the monumental Krefeld Redux, Bedroom #6 (Surviving the Fall Meant Using You for Handholds) (2004) was purchased by Paul Allen featured in the 2006 Double Take Exhibit at Experience Music Project, where it was juxtaposed with a much smaller Degas pastel.

This is by no means the first time Fischl has been compared to Degas.

Twenty years earlier, reviewing a show of 28 Fischl paintings at New York's Whitney Museum, art critic John Russell wrote in The New York Times, "[Degas] sets up a charged situation with his incomparable subtlety of insight and characterization, and then he goes away and leaves us to figure it out as best we can. That is the tactic of Fischl, too, though the society with which he deals has an unstructured brutality and a violence never far from release that are very different from the nicely calibrated cruelties that Degas recorded."

Fischl also collaborated with Jamaica Kincaid, E. L. Doctorow and Frederic Tuten combining paintings and sketches with literary works.

Composer Bruce Wolosoff was inspired by Fischl's watercolors to compose "The Loom" for the classical ensemble Eroica Trio.

Fischl's work can be found in the permanent collections of museums such as the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Institute of Chicago; Broad Museum, Los Angeles; Dallas Museum of Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art, among many others.

In May 2022, a new auction record was set for Eric Fischl when his 1982 painting The Old Man's Boat and the Old Man's Dog sold for $4,140,000 against an estimate of $2,000,000-3,000,000, more than doubling his previous record.

Eric Fischl is represented by Skarstedt Gallery, New York.

For many years Fischl worked and resided in New York City, with his studio located in Tribeca.

2016

In Sag Harbor Fischl and Gornik led fundraising efforts to renovate the Sag Harbor Cinema which burned in December 2016 into a cultural center and renovate an abandoned Methodist Church into an artist residency and exhibition space called The Church.

Both venues opened in 2021.