1928 JAPANESE CHINESE INDIAN ART Otto Fischer GERMAN language ASIAN ART

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Die Kunst Indiens, Chinas und Japans. FISCHER, Otto Propylaen-Kunstgeschichte Berlin: Im Propylaen-Verlag, 1928 . Ex college library copy with hardcover library binding ; bookplate and label ; periodic foxing ; foxing to edges else binding tight ; complete ; 644pp approx 17 some tipped in color plates & 453 monochrome plates, 4 maps, index. Beautifully illustrated history of Asian art, many black-and-white plates of architectural gems, paintings, bronzes, buildings, drawings. "Eduard Otto Fischer (* May 22 1886 in Reutlingen , �� April 9 1948 in Basel ) was a German art historian and museum director . He was considered an expert on Chinese art ... Since 1909, Fischer worked with Chinese painting. A first essay on East Asian art Fischer wrote a year after the legendary Munich East Asia Exhibition of 1909 as a review. From him we learn that the exhibition "has widely opened the eyes of an art of which they were aware of and otherwise only accessible only little, she has [...] prepares some joy and given some suggestion." Although [3 ] What was concerned the quality of the exhibits he restricts however: "The Munich exhibition offered at least for Japan sample of almost every major type. mostly mediocre, but also some admirable pieces" [4] A second essay he wrote in 1911 about the Chinese art theory. In 1912 he habilitated at the philological-historical department of the Faculty of Philosophy, University .. of Göttingen with a thesis on Chinese painting. After the First World War, he summed up his habilitation and re-published it in 1923. [5] The book reached many editions. At the latest in 1911 [6] Fischer came to the circle of artists included in the "pink salon" [7] of Marianne Teniers wrong. Through a series of publications, especially in professional journals and periodicals [8] , he had already made a name at that time, who established his career with. In the same year he was also a member of the New Artists' Association of Munich (NKVM). [9] wrote in 1912 fishermen under the title The new image, the first publication on the NKVM This includes, including Alexander Mogilewsky , listed and described all those artists NKVM, the then members of the association. [10] After the First World War, Fischer opened a bookseller in Munich. About 1920, he was offered a director of the Wuerttemberg Museum of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. [11] financed by the Fund of German science and the Foreign Office came Fischer 1925 expedition on which it across Siberia to Korea , Japan , China led where he by the government in Beijing "honorary consultant" [12] was appointed. In 1926 he discovered in Beijing the painter Qi Baishi (1861-1957), who at the 1930 Berlin Secession and exhibited "great Chinese ink was known contemporary artists in the world and also in China," as then. [13] On the return visit he Java and Bali . In 1927, Fischer's reputation in the Office of the Director of the Kunstmuseum Basel as successor of Frederick Rintelen (1881-1926), combined with an extraordinary professor of art history at the local university . For the construction of the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, he engaged as the architect Professor Paul Bonatz and the Basel Rudolf Christ (1895-1975), under whose supervision "this time its art museum in Europe was completed in 1936." [14] The presentation of the images was carried out according to his information . 1936, the museum was opened. After almost ten years of service, Fischer had to withdraw for health reasons from the museum service. His successor in Basel was Georg Schmidt . In 1938 he moved with his family to Ascona in the canton of Ticino , where he continued working as a writer and scientifically authored several books. 1945 Otto Fischer was a serious heart condition and returned to Basel, where he died in 1948."wikipedia read more

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