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(1) Hermann Vischer (i)
( fl 1453; bur Nuremberg, 13 Jan 1488). Brass founder. He was listed as a redsmith in the Nuremberg council’s rolls for 1453. He probably emigrated from northern Germany, rather than from the Netherlands, as some have thought, and established his own foundry in the imperial city. The large baptismal font (see fig.) is an expertly cast and precisely finished work that reflects the lost wood model executed by an unknown carver. The credit for the final product is clear from the inscription: Meister Hermann Vischer zu Nurbeg. The interlocked ogee and cusped arches of the central support, the clustered piers, the sturdy buttresses, the rampant escutcheon bearing lions, the stocky and heavily draped Apostle figures and the large, swelling foliage motifs are combined in a composition that is at once dramatic and monumental.
Part of the Vischer family
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