Edward Vischer (1809–1878) was a German-born painter and photographer who migrated from Germany to Mexico at the age of nineteen. He is best known for his pencil sketches of California landscapes throughout the 1860s and 1870s.
Edward Vischer | |
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 Studio portrait of Edward Vischer. Taken at C.E. Watkins' Art Gallery, San Francisco, California. | |
| Born | 1809 |
| Died | December 24, 1878 |
| Occupation | photographer |
Career edit
In Mexico, he worked with the commercial house of Heinrich Virmond, traveling throughout the Pacific Coast region of the Americas. In 1835, he visited Peru on business, where he lived with artist Mauritius Rugendas and met Charles Darwin. In 1842, he became interested in California and agreed to travel there for Virmond.[1]
Vischer is best known for his pencil sketches of California landscapes throughout the 1860s and 1870s. He sketched a wide variety of scenes and objects, but most commonly the California missions, trees, mountains, and rural scenes. His 1870 publication Pictorial of California gathered together nearly 200 drawings, forming the first comprehensive documentation of California scenery. He followed this in 1872 with an album of drawings of California missions; another volume of mission drawings was published in 1878, the year of his death.
Death edit
Edward Vischer died on December 24, 1878, in San Francisco, California.
Published works edit
A partial list of Vischer's works include:
Gallery edit
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El Jolon, Monterey County -
Rancho de Santa Ana by Edward Vischer -
Mission San Antonio de Padua as drawn
External links edit
References edit
- ^ "Guide to the Edward Vischer Papers 921". oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2021-10-20.
- ^ "Sketches of the Washoe Mining Region". ccdl.claremont.edu. 1862. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
- ^ "Views of California". witherells.com. 1940. Retrieved 2021-10-20.
- ^ "Vischer's Pictorial of California". ccdl.claremont.edu. 1870. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
- ^ "The Mission Era: California Under Spain and Mexico, and Reminiscences". ccdl.claremont.edu. 1872. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
