Peter Vischer the Younger

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Peter Vischer the Younger (* 1487 in Nuremberg ; † 1528 there ) was a German sculptor and medalist . He came from the artist family Vischer .

Epitaph of Albrecht von Brandenburg from 1525 in St. Peter and Alexander in Aschaffenburg

Peter Vischer the Younger was the son of Peter Vischer the Elder , whose father was Hermann Vischer the Elder . His brothers were Hans and Hermann . He is known to have four plaques depicting Orpheus and Eurydice. Karl Woermann writes about it in his History of Art Volume III 1911: “Three of them, belonging to the Berlin Museum, the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the St. Paul Abbey in Carinthia, show Eurydice still about to follow her husband who stayed behind, the fourth, in the Dreyfus Collection in Paris, she is already reproducing a movement that is preparing her return to Hades. "

literature

  • Karl Sitzmann : Artist and craftsman in Eastern Franconia (= Die Plassenburg. Vol. 12, ZDB -ID 504385-2 ). Friends of Plassenburg, Kulmbach 1957, p. 159.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ L. Forrer: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists . Vischer, Peter (II). Volume VI. Spink & Son Ltd, London 1916, p. 286 f .
  2. ^ L. Forrer: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists . Vischer, Peter (II). Volume VIII. Spink & Son Ltd, London 1930, p. 249 f .
personal data
SURNAME Vischer, Peter the Younger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and medalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1487
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH 1528
Place of death Nuremberg