| Wichner, Milton | |||||||
| type | Collector | ||||||
| dates | d. 1978 | ||||||
| city | Los Angeles | ||||||
| state | CA | ||||||
| sex | M | ||||||
| history | The Los Angeles attorney Milton Wichner’s remarkable collection is now housed at the Long Beach Museum of Art. Arriving in Southern California in 1936, Wichner's encounter with Galka Scheyer, a champion of European modern abstraction, ignited his passion for contemporary European Modernist paintings. Scheyer's exhibitions introduced Wichner to modernists like Oskar Fischinger, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Wassily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, and Alexej Jawlensky. Among these artists, it was Jawlensky's vibrant and spiritual abstractions that particularly captivated Wichner. The collection consist of 61 pieces: 35 Jawlensky artworks and others by Kandinsky, Feininger, Fischinger, and Moholy-Nagy. | ||||||
| decades | 1930-1940 1940-1950 1950-1960 1970-1980 |
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| updated | 11/24/2025 10:11:51 | ||||||
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