Town house featuring a story on its façade
The exhibition of the Arthur Fleischmann Museum was open in 2002 on the 1st floor of the town house at 6 Biela ulica (White Street) that Fleischmann‘s mother bought in 1917 and in which artist‘s family lived in the 1920s and 1930s.
The building, mentioned in archive documents in 1422, was rebuilt in the Renaissance style in the course of the 16th century, of which an upstairs arcade in the courtyard remains. The most important find from the façade research in 1975 is the uncovering of evidence of painted decoration from several periods.
The most extensive are remains of the early Renaissance monochrome painting from the 2nd half of the 16th century. Individual architectural fields show alternating figures of saints and also pictures of workers in a vineyard. Minor surfaces of sgraffito decorations date back to the end of the 16th century, while the rebuilding of the house in the mid-17th century left painted bands of geometric décor.
In the 19th century, the façade was modified and unified in late Classical style. Later changes of the façade resulted from the establishment of shops on the ground floor in modern times.