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Fischer, Katrina Sigsbee; in collaboration with Alex A HurstABAA

Anton Otto Fischer Marine Artist: His Life and Work. With 236 Illustrations.

1984Best.-Nr. vita5638Nantucket Massachusetts: Mill Hill Press MCMLXXXIV. 1984. Quarto green boards hardcover gilt letters and illustration to upper cover 235 pp. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Anton Otto Fischer was born into extreme poverty in Regensburg in 1882 and found himself an orphan very shortly afterward. His early life makes extrememly interesting reading although it was far removed from all sight and sound of the sea. However he did go to sea if for quite the wrong reasons and served in a variety of craft both steam and sail of different nationalities finally coming ahsore in New York at the turn of the century. Later he went to Paris to study at the Academie Julian where he barely missed his contemporary Arthur Briscoe and all this time the reader is struck with his sense of purpose and innate self-discipline which was characteristic of his entire life. On his return to the United States he quickly made himself a great name as an illustrator and possibly due to the insecurity of his youth and partly because he was not a man who ever courted fame he never ceased to illustrate -- the results making his name a household word wherever the greater American magazines and books were read. By this time he was an American citizen. As time passed he became purely a marine artist and the pity was that so few of the countless thousands of people who awaited his illustrations so eagerly had any idea of the merits of the original pictures or of the vast number of magnificent works produced for his own amusement. Although many of his pictures hang in galleries and museums he himself never sought these venues but when commissioned in the U.S. Coast Guard in the Second World War as an artist-laureate the resulting pictures were widely exhibited and took the United States by storm. Nevertheless few people have had the opportunity to appreciate Fischer’s work to the full. He was probably the greatest marine artist ever to work on the Western side of the Atlantic. Extremely prolific he produced an immense variety of subjects with uncanny accuracy for he was a man who seemed to have a mystical affinity with the very run of the sea and the way of a ship since these were things which he portrayed with a realism that was almost unique but above all he was the master of the delineation of men’s emotions whatever the situation. In this alone he stands above all his peers. Mill Hill Press, MCMLXXXIV. (1984). hardcover books

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