Adelie Landis was raised in Brooklyn. She studied with Elmer Bischoff, David Park and Hassel Smith at the California School of Fine Arts in1951/1952. The following year she studied with Smith at his Potrero Hill/Mission Street school. She received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Berkeley in 1959. In 1962 she married Elmer Bischoff. A student of Hassel Smith, Landis’ light was different, more spiritual. Her work is reminiscent of Corbett, and yet stylistically Landis has her own sense of expression. Her early Abstract Expressionist work is some of the best from the period and she was active early in the Beat era, showing at the King Ubu Gallery. Soon, though, she moved from Abstract Expressionism to the Bay Area Figurative Style. Adelie Landis Bischoff has continued to paint and exhibit in Bay Area; where she resides.
Seated Nude
