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THBAnton Otto Fischer (1882-1962) Summer Fisherman
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Hingham, MA 02043
United States
Copley Fine Art Auctions is the world's leading American sporting art auction company. Located in Hingham, MA, Copley specializes in antique decoys and 19th- and 20th-century American, sporting, and wildlife paintings. Principal Stephen O'Brien Jr., a fourth-generation sportsman with a refined colle...Read more
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LiveJul 24, 2016 - Jul 25, 2016
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- Lot Description
Anton Otto Fischer (1882-1962)
Summer Fisherman
signed "Anton Otto Fischer" lower right
oil on canvas, 20 by 28 in.
Anton Otto Fischer was born in 1882 in Munich, Germany, raised in an orphanage, and escaped the priesthood by choosing a life at sea. His first land-based job came in 1905 for the well-known sporting artist and illustrator A.B. Frost, who inspired him to pursue a career in art. Fischer spent two years at the Academie Julian in France before settling in Wilmington, DE, to study with the eminent American illustrator Howard Pyle and the Brandywine School, which included such artists as Joseph Leydendecker and N.C. Wyeth, among others.
Fischer married Mary Ellen Sigsbee, also a former student of Pyle, and after 1910 found his own success as an artist. Throughout his career he provided images for magazines such as Harper's Weekly, The Saturday Evening Post, and novels, including Moby Dick, Treasure Island, and multiple titles by Jack London.
He became the Artist Laureate of the U.S. Coast Guard in 1943, exhibiting his wartime drawings at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC. Today his work can be found at the Coast Guard Academy and the Mystic Seaport Museum, among others. Fischer settled in Woodstock, NY, in the Catskills, where he died in 1962.Condition
good condition by sight and UV examination
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