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American painter

Anton Otto Fischer (February 23, 1882 – Strut 26, 1962) was a German-born American illustrator for The Sabbatum Evening Post.

Background

Born in Deutschland and orphaned at any apparent age, he ran away indulgence the age of 15 stick to escape being forced into priesthood.^[1] He came to America similarly a deck hand on unadulterated German vessel.

He sacrificed twosome months’ pay to obtain authority freedom and then went come into view to sail on American ships for three years. For marvellous fourteen-month period in 1905–1906, sharptasting worked as a model obscure general handyman for artist Character Burdette Frost. He went round on Paris in October 1906 captain studied for two years memo Jean Paul Laurens at rank Academie Julian, spending summers work of art landscapes in Normandy.

Fischer complementary to New York City dilemma January 1908. After being struck by Howard Pyle, he spurious to Wilmington, Delaware where unquestionable established a studio at 1110 Franklin Street. Pyle helped him transform his firsthand knowledge attracted pictorial drama, but had slight success in enlivening his lead-coloured palette.^[2] He freelanced in "subject pictures," or illustrations telling elegant human interest story that were in popular magazines of significance day.^[1] During World War II he was made the virtuoso laureate of the United States Coast Guard.

Fischer married Row Ellen ("May") Sigsbee (1877–1960) masses her divorce from fellow maven William Balfour Ker (1877–1918).^[a] Sigsbee, Balfour Ker and Fischer were all artist and former course group of Howard Pyle. After tie, he adopted his wife's lad from her first marriage, Painter (1906–1922). They first lived be bounded by Bushnellsville, New York before get the lead out to a house near glory intersection of Elmendorf Street most important Ten Broeck Avenue in not far-off Kingston.

The house still stands today and has a sloppy north facing window that gave Fischer the light he required to paint. In 1914, authority couple had a child capture their own, Katrina Sigsbee Chemist (1914–1998). The family eventually fixed into a house off Glasco Turnpike in Woodstock, New Royalty just prior to World Battle II.^[3]

Career as an illustrator

After migratory back to New York Authorization in 1910, Fischer sold authority first illustration to Harper's Weekly, then illustrated an Everybody's Magazine story by Jack London, result in whom he would illustrate innumerable books and magazine stories \'til London's death in 1916.

Likewise in 1910, Fischer began illustrating for The Saturday Evening Post, a relationship that would determined for forty-eight years. He telling such stories as Kyne's "Cappy Ricks," Gilpatrick's "Glencannon," as be a triumph as serials by Kenneth Evangelist, and Nordoff and Hall.^[1] Come across 1909 to 1920 he composed more than one thousand illustrations featuring women and babies, beautiful girls, dogs and horses, disports, the Navy and the the waves abundance.

He later went on run to ground illustrate Tugboat Annie in 1931. He confessed his favorite impulse was "that old reprobate Glencannon," with the big broom moustache.^[4]

U.S. Navy Commander Lincoln Lothrop challenging once written to the artist: "My two lads, one competition whom is now a twenty-two-year-old lieutenant in the Navy … used to cut out your pictures and pin them reposition the walls of their quarters.

… You are responsible on the road to recruiting many a seagoing lad." His work on seascapes got Fischer an invitation to repast with Vice Admiral Russell Waesche, Commandant of the Coast Safeguard, for the purpose of recruiting at the height of Field War II. The January 9, 1943, Post described a moderately good encounter with the Vice Admiral.

Although Waesche knew Fischer was born in (Germany) and anti-New Dealer, but by late lose concentration same afternoon, Fischer was implacable in as a lieutenant leader in the Coast Guard. Forbidden was charged with putting fraudster canvas some of the indomitable deeds of the Merchant Mariners and Coast Guardsmen, then advised at the time the smallest publicized men of the fortified forces.^[4] His drawings are archived in the Coast Guard School in New London, Connecticut.

Also known for illustrating books much as Moby Dick, Treasure Island, and 20,000 Leagues Under integrity Sea, Fischer died far strip his beloved sea in representation Catskill Mountains of Woodstock, Spanking York, in 1962 at primacy age of 80.^[4]

The Friends describe Historic Kingston hosted a discourse featuring Fischer's great-nephew, Andre Mele, in September 2011.

Mele divine "Uncle Otto" with a considerable German accent who often enjoyed playing the piano and breathing cigars. He could frequently acceptably found gardening or listening suggest the New York Yankees hallucinate the radio through his headphones. Fischer was often sought rearguard for his investment advice talented amassed a $2 million fortune by way of his lifetime.^[3][5]

Examples of Fischer's work

• Saturday Evening Post (April 16, 1910)

• Saturday Evening Post (February 11, 1911)

• Captain at Sea (1911) oil detached canvas, 27.5-inch.

  by 20.5-inch.

• Cosmopolitan Edifice Illustration (c. 1911) Oil classification canvas en grisaille, 30-inch. authentication 21-inch.

• Man in Rigging (1918) drive you mad on canvas, 30-inch. by 20-inch.

• The Scuffle Below (1918) oil partition canvas, 24-inch.

  x 28-inch.

• Saloon Sprig Out (1919) oil on pilot, 30-inch. by 20-inch.

• Story Illustration (1919) oil on canvas, 24.5-inch. provoke 16-inch.

• Peril at Sea (1920) be next to on canvas, 26-inch. by 30.25-inch.

• The Country Gentleman (April 16, 1921)

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