Anton Otto Fischer Portrait Prints
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)
1940s American Realist Anton Otto Fischer Portrait Prints
Offset
Late 19th Century Anton Otto Fischer Portrait Prints
Lithograph
2010s Land Anton Otto Fischer Portrait Prints
Paper
1790s Anton Otto Fischer Portrait Prints
Engraving, Etching
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Anton Otto Fischer Portrait Prints
Etching
Late 19th Century Edo Anton Otto Fischer Portrait Prints
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Woodcut
1840s Realist Anton Otto Fischer Portrait Prints
Lithograph
Early 1900s Modern Anton Otto Fischer Portrait Prints
Photogravure
Late 19th Century Edo Anton Otto Fischer Portrait Prints
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Woodcut
1970s Expressionist Anton Otto Fischer Portrait Prints
Paper, Screen
Early 2000s Photorealist Anton Otto Fischer Portrait Prints
Lithograph, Offset
Early 19th Century Romantic Anton Otto Fischer Portrait Prints
Engraving, Aquatint
Early 19th Century Anton Otto Fischer Portrait Prints
Etching
