Vischer family; Vischer, Peter, 1487-1528; Vischer, Peter, approximately 1455-1529
Cathedral, Breslau, 1496.
TOMB OF ARCHBISHOP ERNST. Described, pp. 24-30. Signed, “GEMACHT ZU
NUREMBERG VON MIR PETER VISCHER ROTGIESZER VND IST VOLBRACHT WORDEN
DO MAN ZALT 1.4.9.7. JAR.”
Cathedral, Magdeburg, 1497.
SAINT MAURICE. Fountain in the Court of the Krafft House.
Nuremberg.
MONUMENT OF BISHOP VEIT. After design by some other artist.
1497-1900.
MONUMENT OF COUNT EITEL, FRIEDRICH II. von Hohenzollern and his wife
Magdalena, Countess of Brandenburg. After a drawing by Albrecht
Dürer. Partly destroyed in 1782.
Stadtkirche, Hechingen, 1500.
MONUMENT OF COUNT HERMANN VIII. of Henneberg and his wife Elizabeth,
Countess of Brandenburg. After the drawing by Albrecht Dürer.
Stiftskirche, Römhild, 1500.
TOMB OF CARDINAL-BISHOP FREDERICK. From the Vischer Foundry, but hardly
from the Master’s hand.
Cathedral, Cracow (d. 1503).
BISHOP’S DESK WITH BRAZEN EAGLE.
Cathedral, Halberstadt, 1510(?).
THEODORIC, KING OF THE GOTHS. Tomb of Maximilian.
Innsbruck, 1513.
CHRIST ON THE CROSS, on a tablet of about six inches. “This was formerly
in the Silberrad Collection. Count Clam-Martinitz purchased it.
After his death it came into the possession of the Director of the
Academy Bergler, who had it gilded.” Retberg.
At Prague, 1515.
TOMB-PLATE of Burgomaster Tiedemann Beck and his wife.
Marienkirche, Lübeck, 1521.
MEMORIAL TABLET of Prebendary Henning Goden. (Crowning of Mary.)
Schlosskirche, Wittenberg, (Replica in Erfurt Cathedral), 1521.
MEMORIAL TABLET of Anton Kress, who is represented kneeling and praying
before a crucifix.
S. Lorenzkirche, Nuremberg.
SMALLER WORKS IN THE GERMANIC
MUSEUM, NUREMBERG, ATTRIBUTED TO
PETER VISCHER.
DOG SCRATCHING ITSELF. The authenticity of this is very doubtful. It is
not worthy of the Master whose name it bears.
Replicas in Berlin and Dresden.
CARDINAL’S HEAD.
NEPTUNE (Fountain-figure).
SMALL GENIUS on a temple which rests on six columns. Three beasts of the
sea, hanging by their tails, look out from it. It is borne by six
serpents. It probably forms a small epitome of the Sebaldusgrab.
BOY WITH BAGPIPES.
WORKS BY THE FAMILY.
ST. WENZEL (from the Vischer Foundry, but probably the work of an
apprentice).
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