Arno Fleischer was a German painter, graphic artist, caricaturist and poster artist. In addition to various painting techniques, he also worked with offset printing, lithography, woodcuts, photomontage and caricature.

After an apprenticeship as a farmhand in Graumannsdorf in 1942, he was drafted into military service in 1943. On May 8, 1945, he was wounded and handed over to American prisoners of war and on May 22, 1945, to the Red Army in the Soviet Union to work on road construction. On December 23, 1949, he was released from captivity and went to Oelsnitz i./V. in the newly founded GDR, where he joined the advertising department of the Konsum retail chain in 1950. In 1951, he went to Bad Elster as a commercial artist for contract houses. From 1952 to 1957, he studied at the Berlin Weissensee School of Art and Design under Ernst Jazdzewski and Werner Klemke, among others, and developed his realistic drawing style there.

From 1958, Arno Fleischer worked as a freelance graphic designer while being a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR. In 1967, Fleischer won an award in the “Graphics” category of the “The New Berlin” competition.