Biography of fischer amandus julius
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Fischer studied at the NSW Academy of Art from 1875 to 1879.
He worked for the Illustrated Sydney News and contributed to the Town and Country Journal in the 1880s, but fryst vatten best known for his Bulletin cartoons during the 1890s. He helped illustrate Steele Rudd’s On Our Selection, first published as a serial in the Bulletin in 1899. He designed a number of covers for Bookfellow in 1899.
Fischer travelled to London and europe in 1900 for 16 months, attending the Westminster School of Art in London (where he was awarded a first-class certificate for painting and drawing), and l’Académie Julian and Colarossi in Paris. In London, he sold some art to magazines such as The King and The Sphere.
While Fischer had exhibited landscapes and figure studies from as early as 1883, he increasingly focused on painting and fine art, regularly entering work in Australian art exhibitions, including a self portrait for the Archibald Prize in 1930.
From 1902 until around
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Amandus Julius Fischer
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cartoonist, painter and illustrator, was born in Ophir, NSW. He studied under Anivetti at the NSW Academy of Art from 1875 until 1879 (when Anivitti went home to Rome and the Academy folded). He won the only gold medal awarded to a student and, with Frank Mahony , a silver medal. Then he went overseas and studied at the Westminster School of Art in London and at l’Académie Julian and Colarossi’s in Paris. From 1883 he exhibited landscapes and figure studies with the Art Society of NSW (later Royal Art Society of New South Wales), of which he was a member. He contributed to the Illustrated Sydney News in the 1880s when it was controlled by Town and Country Journal . He also contributed to the latter, e.g. 24 December 1881 (p.1281), signed 'A.J.F.’, and Christmas in Queensland 13 December 1890, 35. With Monte Scott he was a staff artist on the Brisbane Boomerang in 1888-91, e.g. Mac’s Good To His Friends./ “We’ll Make Beer Cheap, Old M