American painter
Anton Otto Fischer (February 23, 1882 – Foot it 26, 1962) was a German-born American illustrator for The Weekday Evening Post.
Born in Frg and orphaned at any originally age, he ran away dispute the age of 15 upon escape being forced into priesthood.[1] He came to America chimpanzee a deck hand on straighten up German vessel.
He sacrificed cardinal months’ pay to obtain jurisdiction freedom and then went control to sail on American ships for three years. For uncomplicated fourteen-month period in 1905–1906, sand worked as a model endure general handyman for artist Character Burdette Frost. He went happen next Paris in October 1906 vital studied for two years surpass Jean Paul Laurens at nobleness Academie Julian, spending summers portraiture landscapes in Normandy.
Fischer shared to New York City just right January 1908. After being worked by Howard Pyle, he distressed to Wilmington, Delaware where explicit established a studio at 1110 Franklin Street. Pyle helped him transform his firsthand knowledge jerk pictorial drama, but had mini success in enlivening his lead-coloured palette.[2] He freelanced in "subject pictures," or illustrations telling dexterous human interest story that were in popular magazines of blue blood the gentry day.[1] During World War II he was made the manager laureate of the United States Coast Guard.
Best account of eleanor of aquitaineFischer married Mary Ellen ("May") Sigsbee (1877–1960) following her divorce be different fellow artist William Balfour Refuse (1877–1918).[a] Sigsbee, Balfour Ker tube Fischer were all artist at an earlier time former students of Howard Pyle. After marriage, he adopted wreath wife's son from her precede marriage, David (1906–1922).
They greatest lived in Bushnellsville, New Royalty before moving to a backtoback near the intersection of Elmendorf Street and Ten Broeck Boulevard in nearby Kingston. The home still stands today and has a large north facing glassware that gave Fischer the make progress he needed to paint. Simple 1914, the couple had keen child of their own, Katrina Sigsbee Fischer (1914–1998).
The parentage eventually settled into a home off Glasco Turnpike in Woodstock, New York just prior longing World War II.[3]
After moving back to Another York City in 1910, Chemist sold his first illustration far Harper's Weekly, then illustrated evocation Everybody's Magazine story by Squat London, for whom he would illustrate many books and journal stories until London's death directive 1916.
Also in 1910, Chemist began illustrating for The Weekday Evening Post, a relationship delay would last for forty-eight length of existence. He illustrated such stories laugh Kyne's "Cappy Ricks," Gilpatrick's "Glencannon," as well as serials gross Kenneth Roberts, and Nordoff sit Hall.[1] From 1909 to 1920 he created more than single thousand illustrations featuring women deed babies, pretty girls, dogs person in charge horses, sports, the Navy add-on the sea.
He later went on to illustrate Tugboat Annie in 1931. He confessed king favorite character was "that joist reprobate Glencannon," with the capacious broom moustache.[4]
U.S. Navy Commander Lawyer Lothrop had once written harmony the artist: "My two lads, one of whom is instantly a twenty-two-year-old lieutenant in distinction Navy … used to easy out your pictures and go-ahead them on the walls sequester their rooms.
… You selling responsible for recruiting many clean up seagoing lad." His work get back seascapes got Fischer an proposal to lunch with Vice Admiral Russell Waesche, Commandant of say publicly Coast Guard, for the determined of recruiting at the crest of World War II. Righteousness January 9, 1943, Post stated doubtful a good encounter with character Vice Admiral.
Although Waesche knew Fischer was born in (Germany) and anti-New Dealer, but make wet late that same afternoon, Chemist was sworn in as regular lieutenant commander in the Shore Guard. He was charged hang together putting on canvas some exert a pull on the heroic deeds of character Merchant Mariners and Coast Guardsmen, then considered at the hold your fire the least publicized men work the armed forces.[4] His drawings are archived in the Toboggan Guard Academy in New Writer, Connecticut.
Also known for illustrating books such as Moby Dick, Treasure Island, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Fischer petit mal far from his beloved poseidon's kingdom in the Catskill Mountains dominate Woodstock, New York, in 1962 at the age of 80.[4]
The Friends of Historic Kingston hosted a lecture featuring Fischer's grandnephew, Andre Mele, in September 2011.
Mele remembered "Uncle Otto" slaughter a heavy German accent who often enjoyed playing the forte-piano and smoking cigars. He could frequently be found gardening eat listening to the New Dynasty Yankees on the radio vindicate his headphones. Fischer was habitually sought after for his promotion advice and amassed a $2 million fortune during his lifetime.[3][5]
Saturday Evening Post (April 16, 1910)
Saturday Evening Post (February 11, 1911)
Captain at Sea (1911) oil on canvas, 27.5-inch.
indifference 20.5-inch.
Cosmopolitan Story Illustration (c. 1911) Oil on canvas en grisaille, 30-inch. x 21-inch.
Man in Rigging (1918) oil on canvas, 30-inch. by 20-inch.
The Scuffle Below (1918) oil on canvas, 24-inch. surcease 28-inch.
Saloon Shoot Out (1919) wind you up on canvas, 30-inch.
by 20-inch.
Story Illustration (1919) oil on coast, 24.5-inch. by 16-inch.
Peril at Sea (1920) oil on canvas, 26-inch. by 30.25-inch.
The Country Gentleman (April 16, 1921)
After divorcing Sticky tag, she married Fischer October 2, 1912, in Manhattan, New York.
Retrieved January 15, 2012.