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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