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 Edward Vischer  (1809 - 1878)
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Lived/Active: California      Known for: landscape-sketches, illustrator
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Born in Ratisbon, Bavaria on April 6, 1809. At age 19 Vischer immigrated to Mexico where he was the American Consul in Acapulco and was affiliated with a trading company in Mexico City. He came to San Francisco in 1842 as an agent for the Mexican firm and returned to live there in 1849. After establishing a prosperous import business, he built a unique home on Nob Hill at Pine and Stockton. Covering several acres, it was a replica of a charming Bavarian village consisting of four cottages with terraces and its own artesian well. Vischer began sketching as a hobby; his drawings were used to illustrate three books which he authored: Mammoth Tree Grove (1862), Pictorial of California (1870), and Missions of Upper California (1872). Vischer died on Christmas Eve 1878. His sketches are rare and of historical importance. In: Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley); CSL.
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Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Artists of the American West (Doris Dawdy); First 100 Years of Painting in California (J. Van Nostrand); Artists of the American West (Samuels); Drawings & Illustrations by Southern California Artists (Wall Moore, Nancy Dustin, et al; Laguna Beach Museum of Art); New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America (Groce, George C. and David H. Wallace); California on Stone (Peters); Touring Topics, April 1933; SF Alta, 12-26-1878 (obituary).
Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here.

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