August Vischer
August Vischer (born June 30, 1821 in Waldangelloch ; † January 8, 1898 in Karlsruhe ) was a German history painter.
Born the son of a Protestant pastor, Vischer attended the Lyceum and Polytechnic in Karlsruhe. Then he was trained as a lithographer.
Vischer began his studies on November 4, 1840 in the field of printmaking at the Royal Academy of the Arts in Munich with Peter von Cornelius and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld .
From 1847 to 1849 Vischer studied at the Antwerp Academy of Art and then in the studio of the genre painter Eugene-François de Block. Back in Munich in 1849 he dealt with genre and history painting. Vischer spent the years 1853 and 1854 in Paris .
Grand Duke Friedrich I appointed him court painter to Baden in 1864.
In 1870 Vischer was appointed professor for figure drawing at the Technical University of Karlsruhe .
Works
- Guide to teaching the anatomy and proportion of the human body. For technical universities, arts, construction and applied arts schools , Karlsruhe 1878
- Figurative decorations on works of architecture , 3 booklets, Karlsruhe 1888.
literature
- Thomas Cathiau: August Vischer . In: Badische Biographien , Vol. 5, ed. by Friedrich von Weech and Albert Krieger, Heidelberg 1906, pp. 786–788.
- Hermann Alexander Müller (Ed.): Biographisches Künstler-Lexikon , Leipzig 1882, pp. 537-538.
- Carl August Regnet: August Vischer . In: The Dioscuri. Deutsche Kunst-Zeitung , vol. 15, 1870, p. 158 ff.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vischer, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German history painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1821 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Forest fishing hole |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 8, 1898 |
| Place of death | Karlsruhe |