(b Nuremberg, c. 1460; d Nuremberg, 7 Jan 1529). Brass founder, son of (1) Hermann Vischer (i). After his father’s death, Peter (i) was permitted by the Nuremberg city council to head the family brass-casting foundry, which had already become one of the most prominent foundries in Germany. He was registered as a redsmith in 1489. The elegant brass candelabra (Nuremberg, St Lorenz), cast after a wood model made by a woodturner, has traditionally been regarded as his masterpiece (in the medieval sense).

Part of the Vischer family

• Vischer, Peter (i) (c. 1460-1529)
  • Labenwolf: (1) Pankraz Labenwolf
  • Lainberger, Simon
  • Nuremberg, §III, 2(ii): Centre of production: Base metals
  • Vischer
  • patrons and collectors
    • Habsburg, §I: (3) Maximilian I, §2(ii): Patronage: Building projects and memorials
  • works
    • Cenotaph, §1(ii): Western world: 16th–20th centuries
    • Germany, §IV, 2(ii)(b): Sculpture, c 1400–c 1600: Effects of the Reformation
    • Katzheimer, Wolfgang
    • Magdeburg, §1(ii): Cathedral sculpture
    • Poland, §IX, 2: Base metals
    • Statuette, §II, 2(i): Renaissance and Baroque: Holy Roman Empire and the Low Countries
    • Vischer: (1) Hermann Vischer (i)
    • Vischer: (4) Peter Vischer (ii)
  • workshop
    • Nuremberg, §II, 2: Art life and organization: Sculpture