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Rosa Fleischmann
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Arthur Fleischmann was born in Bratislava on June 5th 1896. At that time, Bratislava was
called Pozsony and was part of Hungary. Today it is the capital of the Slovak Republic.
Arthur was the youngest son of Jewish parents Rosa and Simon Fleischmann. Simon Fleischmann
was a successful textile merchant. The Fleischmann family was part of the cultural intelligentsia
of Bratislava.
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Simon Fleischmann
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The family lived in a house at 42 Market Square, Bratislava. In the first years of the 20th
Century the family moved to 6 Biela Street.
Arthur studied at the Evanjelic Lyceum. Although he was interested in fine art and wanted
to became a painter like his mother, he followed his father´s wishes and studied medicine,
first in Budapest, and then in Prague. He graduated from the Universita Karlova in 1921 and
specialised in dermatology. His studies were interrupted by the First World War, and after only one
semester , he was drafted into the Hungarian Cavalry as a Medical Officer.
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Fleischmann with medical colleagues
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In 1916 while serving on the Russian front he came under the influence of a local
sculptor in the Polish town of Przemysl and started to work there.
He acquired basic sculptural training in Prague in parallel with his medical studies.
In 1920, he was for a short time the student of Professor Jan tursa,
who, in turn, had been a pupil of Václav Myslbek.
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Arthur with a figurine
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