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Anton Otto Fischer Figurative Paintings

German, 1882-1962

The marine paintings by Anton Otto Fischer are as authoritative as only a working sailor could make them.

Born in Munich, Germany, but orphaned as a boy, Fischer ran away to sea at 16 and spent eight years before the mast on a variety of sailing ships. Paid off in New York, he stayed to apply for American citizenship and to teach seamanship on the school ship, St. Mary's. He later served as a hand on racing yachts on Long Island Sound and worked as a model and handyman for the illustrator A.B. Frost. When he had saved enough money, he spent two years at the Académie Julian in Paris under Jean-Paul Laurens.

Returning to the United States, Fischer sold his first picture to Harper's Weekly in 1908, around the time he moved to Wilmington to receive critiques from Howard Pyle. Everybody's Magazine sent him the first of several Jack London stories. In 1910, he began a 48–year association with The Saturday Evening Post, which included illustrating serialized characters such as Peter B. Kyne's "Crappy Ricks," Norman Reilly Raine's "Tugboat Annie," Guy Gilpatrick's "Glencannon," as well as serials for Kenneth Robert and Nordhoff and Hall.

In 1942, he was given the rank of Lieutenant Commander as "Artist Laureate" for the United States Coast Guard and was assigned North Atlantic convoy duty on the Coast Guard cutter Campbell during the winter of 1943. The Campbell was disabled during a successful attack on a German U-boat, and Fischer's dramatic paintings of this experience were published by Life magazine. The pictures are now in the Coast Guard Academy at New London, Connecticut.

In 1947, Fischer wrote and illustrated a book about his earlier sailing years, entitled Focs'le Days: A Story of My Youth, published by Charles Scribner's Sons.

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(Biography provided by The Illustrated Gallery)

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Artist: Anton Otto Fischer
World War II Naval Engagement
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right
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20th Century Anton Otto Fischer Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Trapped, Magazine Story Illustration showing a Naval Battle
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for “Trapped” by Alec Hudson for The Saturday Evening Post, published February 10, 1940, illustrated on pages 12-13. The full caption reads: “A depth charge...
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20th Century Anton Otto Fischer Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

World War II Naval Engagement
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed & Dated
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1940s Anton Otto Fischer Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Original Illustration for Moby Dick
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 28.00" x 22.00", Framed 34.00" x 28.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Original illustration for Moby Dick: 'To ...
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Mid-20th Century Anton Otto Fischer Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Fishermen Battling Heavy Seas
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right fishermen battling high seas
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20th Century Anton Otto Fischer Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Story illustration for “Smoke Bellew” by Jack London for Cosmopolitan Magazine
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for “Smoke Bellew” by Jack London for Cosmopolitan magazine, published January 1912, page 200. The full caption reads: “With much awkwardness and angry haste, the...
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1910s Anton Otto Fischer Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Whale Hunting
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed & Dated Lower Right
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1930s Anton Otto Fischer Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Cargo Transfer
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right
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1940s Anton Otto Fischer Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Figures in Rowboat Alongside of Barg
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed & Dated Lower Right
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1920s Anton Otto Fischer Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Dock Workers Unloading Freighter
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right
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20th Century Anton Otto Fischer Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed "A.O.F 19" Lower Left "Man & Woman in Disagreement" Long affiliated with The Saturday Evening Post (nearly 50 years), he did dozens of covers and much story art, most notably the long-running Tug-Boat Annie and with maritime painting, Fischer was more versatile than depicting the sail and dreadnaughts when given a chance. Still, he's best known for painting the sea, her beauty and her dangers (whether hurricanes or U-Boats). It's no surprise that his oils graced such titles as The Cruise of the Cachalot: Round the World After Sperm Whales, Treasure Island, The Mutineers, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea...
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20th Century Anton Otto Fischer Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Professor Herbert Raymond Moody
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Professor Herbert Raymond Moody, head at MIT, Hobart college, college City New York, Gilbert School, winsted conn. And of the chemistry division of the national research council, mem...
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20th Century Anton Otto Fischer Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Argument on the Dock
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Used as Advertisement in the Saturday evening Post Signed Lower Right
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1920s Anton Otto Fischer Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Moby Dick Illustration
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for Moby Dick by Herman Melville, for the 1931 edition published by The John C. Winston Company. The full caption reads “The three harpoo...
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1930s Anton Otto Fischer Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"The Yogi of West Ninth Street" SEP Illustration, 1935
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Sight Window 28.00" x 22.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right
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1930s Anton Otto Fischer Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Three Sailors
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right
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1920s Anton Otto Fischer Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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