Eberhard Fischer (ethnologist)

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Eberhard Fischer (born October 15, 1941 in Berlin ) is a German art ethnologist .

Life

His father, the engineer Hermann Fischer (1911–1942), died the year after Eberhard Fischer was born. His mother, Ulrike Himmelheber , married the ethnologist Hans Himmelheber in 1944 . The two traveled and researched together in Africa . With his wife Barbara (* 1950) he had two daughters, Lottika and Anjali. The latter also studied ethnology. His sister Susanne Himmelträger (* 1946) is an art historian and former bookseller. Her daughter Clara (* 1970) is also an ethnologist. His younger brother Martin Himmelträger (* 1953) is a journalist.

job

Eberhard Fischer received his doctorate in ethnology in 1965 at the University of Basel with a thesis on the change of economic roles among the Western Dan in Liberia .

From 1972 to 1998 he headed the Rietberg Museum in Zurich . He is President of the Rietberg Society and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Swiss-Liechtenstein Foundation for Archaeological Research Abroad (SLSA).

Fischer published variously with his parents and his wife Barbara. With his niece Clara Mayer-Himmelträger , he organized the exhibitions “ Zaire 1938/39” and “Die Kultur der Baule ” in Zurich in 1993 and 1997 with photographs and ethnological collections by Hans Himmelträger. They also wrote the exhibition catalogs together.

On April 4, 2012, Fischer was awarded the Padma Shri for literature and education by the Indian government .

In the exhibition “African Masters - Art of the Ivory Coast” in the Museum Rietberg Zurich in 2014, Fischer no longer presented African art as anonymously created tribal art, but as works by artistic masters who shaped recognizable individual styles.

Fonts

  • Eberhard Fischer and Lorenz Homberger (eds.): African masters. Ivory Coast art. Exhibition catalog. 2014
  • Eberhard Fischer, Dinanath Pathy. In the Absence of Jagannatha: The Ansara Paintings Replacing the Jagannatha Icon in Puri and South Orissa. Artibus Asiae Supplementum 49, 2012.
  • Milo C. Beach, Eberhard Fischer, BN Goswamy. Masters of Indian Painting, 1100-1900. Artibus Asiae Supplementum 48, 2011.
  • Eberhard Fischer, Dinanath Pathy. Amorous Delight: The Amarushataka Palm Leaf Manuscript Illustrated by the Master of Sharanakula. Artibus Asiae Supplementum 47, 2006.
  • Albert Lutz, Katharina Epprecht, Eberhard Fischer, Lorenz Homberger, Judith Rickenbach. Museum Rietberg Zurich: Museum guide. Zurich 2000. ISBN 3-907070-81-X
  • Eberhard and Barbara Fischer, Hans and Ulrike Himmelheber: Boti, a mask carver from Guro Ivory Coast: Notes on the personality, work process and style of a traditional sculptor in West Africa . Museum Rietberg, 1993. ISBN 3-907070-45-3
  • BN Goswamy, Eberhard Fischer. Pahari Masters: Court Painters of Northern India. Artibus Asiae Supplementum 38, 1992.
  • Eberhard Fischer, Hans Himmelträger, Haku Shah: Gopal - An Indian ballad singer draws his life. Peter Hammer Verlag, 1985
  • Georgette Boner, Eberhard Fischer (eds.). Alice Boner and the Art of India: Catalog of the exhibition in the Museum Rietberg Zurich and Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur. 1983.
  • Barbara and Eberhard Fischer: Gita and her village in India. Peter Hammer Verlag, 1983. ISBN 978-3-872943743
  • Eberhard Fischer, Hans Himmelträger: Gold from West Africa. 1975
  • Eberhard Fischer, Haku Shah: Art traditions in North India. Codex-Verlag, 1972

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sky lifter, Ulrike; born Romans . In: Bettina Beer : Women in German-speaking ethnology: a manual. Böhlau Verlag, 2007. ISBN 9783412112066 . Pages 90-94. ( Google Book )
  2. ↑ Hans and Ulrike Himmel HEIFER, Stations of Life - 16. The Himmel HEIFER family , May 31, 2008. In: Website of the Association of Friends of African Culture About Africa & the rest of the world . Retrieved February 28, 2017
  3. ↑ http://www.worldcat.org/title/wandel-okonomischer-rolle-bei-den-westlichen-dan-in-liberia/oclc/4714479?referer=null&ht=edition
  4. ↑ Philipp Meier: The foulard of the mother - divine textiles from India - Barbara and Eberhard Fischer's collection in the Museum Rietberg, In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , No. 298, December 23, 2013. P. 13.
  5. ^ Museum Rietberg Zurich: Annual Report 2011 (PDF; 4.0 MB), p. 99
  6. ^ Website of the SLSA: Board of Trustees
  7. ↑ Research by Hans Himmelträger in the Congo , May 31, 2008. In: Website About Africa & the rest of the world . Retrieved February 26, 2017
  8. ↑ Vandana Kalra. Master of Traditions . The Indian Express, April 8, 2012.
  9. ↑ Konrad Tobler: A nose by a master hand. In: Tages-Anzeiger , February 14, 2014
  10. ^ Philipp Meier: African tribal art from Côte d'Ivoire. The face of the master of the masks. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , February 14, 2014
  11. ↑ List of publications by Eberhard Fischer . In: Website of the Museum Rietberg . Retrieved March 1, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin