FIORINI, GIAMBATTISTA. See Aretusi, Cesare.
FISCHBACH, JOHANN, born in Castle
Grafenegg, Nether Austria, April 5, 1797,
died in Munich, June 15, 1871. Landscape
and genre painter, pupil of Vienna Academy
under Potter and Krafft. Extensively known
by his charcoal drawings. In 1840 he
moved from Vienna to Salzburg, lived there
until 1851, then in the country, and from
1860 in Munich; was made member of the
Vienna Academy in 1843. Works: Poachers,
Rosenlauig Glacier in Switzerland
(1838); Peasant Boy quarrelling with Girl
about a Bird (1830), Widow in Graveyard
(1838), Museum, Vienna; Ideal Landscape
(1830), Huntsmen Resting (1845), Liechtenstein
Gallery, ib.; Anxious Expectation
(1844), Children Found (1845), View near
Salzburg (1858), New Pinakothek, Munich;
Salzach Valley and Watzmann (1851).—Allgem.
d. Biogr., vii. 47; Andresen, v. 78;
Wurzbach, iv. 236.
FISCHER, GOTTLOB, born in Stuttgart,
June 27, 1829. History and portrait
painter, studied sculpture in Holland, and
painting (1853-55) in Paris under Ary
Scheffer; returned to Holland, and in 1857
settled in Stuttgart. Works: Bacchante
(1856); Protestant Service in a Barn;
(1859); Rembrandt in his Studio (1865);
Spinoza and the Spiders (1866); King Lear
and Cordelia (1873); Tasso in Prison (1876);
Portraits of King and Queen of Würtemberg
(1875), of Prince Frederic, Baron von
Thumb, Baron von Cotta, Count Taube.—Müller,
175.
FISCHER, (JOHANN CHRISTIAN)
RICHARD, born in Dantzic in 1826. Landscape
painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy
under Karl Sohn, Theodor Hildebrandt, and
Schirmer. From 1854 to 1862 he lived
alternately in Berlin and Dantzic, and then
settled in the latter place. Works: Sultry
Noontide, Early Morning, Noon in the Valley,
Dantzic Museum; Evening in the
Woods, Under the Oak Trees, Solitude in
Eifel Mountains, Vienna Museum; Wood-*border
in Tyrol, Hamburg Gallery; Hessian
Landscape, Darmstadt Gallery; On the
Heights in Eifel Mountains; Heath at Sunset
(1866); Evening on Baltic Sea.—Müller,
175.
FISCHER, JOHANN GEORG, born at
Augsburg in 1580, died in Munich in 1643.
German school; history painter, studied in
Prague and Italy, imitated Albrecht Dürer.
Works: Taking of Christ, Old Pinakothek,
Munich; Twelve Apostles, 11 Battle Scenes,
Schleissheim Gallery; Ecce Homo, Moritz
Chapel, Nuremberg; Trinity (after Dürer),
Pommersfelden Gallery.—Nagler, iv. 354.
FISCHER, JOSEF, born in Vienna, Jan.
30, 1769, died there, Sept. 5, 1822. German
school; landscape painter, pupil of the
Vienna Academy, of which he became a member
in 1815. In 1802 he was made director
of the Eszterhazy Gallery, Vienna. Works:
View of Vienna and the Danube, Vienna Museum;
Landscape, Vienna Academy; Storm
Landscape, Prague Gallery; others in National
Gallery, Pesth.—Allgem. d. Biogr.,
vii. 76; Wurzbach, iv. 240.
FISCHER, JOSEF ANTON, born at
Obersdorf, Allgäu, Feb. 28, 1814, died in
Munich, March 20, 1859. History painter,
pupil of the Munich Academy under Schlotthauer.
Visited Italy with Förster and Schraudolph
in 1832, and studied under Heinrich
Hess in 1834-40. In 1843 he revisited Italy,
studied Fra Angelico, and was influenced by
Overbeck. Works: Flight to Egypt (1841),
Adoration of the Magi (1844), Visitation
(1845), Entombment (1848), New Pinakothek,
Munich; Assumption; Descent from
the Cross; Nativity; Birth of Mary; Adoration
of the Magi.—Allgem. d. Biogr., vii. 77;
Regnet, 133.
FISCHER, THEODOR, born in Schwerin
in 1816, died there, March 30, 1873. History
and portrait painter, pupil in Schwerin
of Schumacher, then in Dresden of Bendemann
and Richter. Pictures in Schwerin
Gallery and Grand Ducal Palace, in Ros-
