Fischer, Johann Martin#
b. Bebele (Germany), Nov. 2, 1740, d. Vienna, April 27, 1820, sculptor and anatomist; lived in Vienna from 1760; 1806 professor of sculpture at the Academy; 1815 director of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts; important representative of classicist sculpture in Austria. During his lifetime he was famous for his anatomical dummy ("Anatomie-Figur"), which was based on his anatomical studies.
Works#
figures in parks (Neuwaldegg, Schoenbrunn, Eisgrub); portrait busts; tombstones (Prague, St. Poelten, Graz); fountain (Vienna). - Writings: Erklaerung der anatom. Statue fuer Kuenstler, 1785; Darstellung des Knochenbaues von dem menschl. Koerper mit Angabe der Verhaeltnisse desselben, 1806.Literature#
M. Poch-Kalous, J. M. F., 1949.