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(3) Hermann Vischer (ii)
(b Nuremberg, c. 1486; d ?Nuremberg, 1 Jan 1517). Brass-caster, sculptor and draughtsman, son of (2) Peter Vischer (i). Neudörfer praised Hermann (ii) for his skill in casting, inscribing, tracery and portraiture, ranking him in importance with Peter (i). He was also a sculptor of models and a superior draughtsman. Efforts to distinguish the work of the son from that of the father, made difficult by the family workshop system, have been founded primarily on stylistic distinctions, including references to the paintings and graphics of Dürer, and the presumption that Hermann (ii) himself provided some of the designs and wood models for the early commissions credited to him in Kraków, Meissen and Römhild. His early tomb-plate of Piotr Kmita (d 1505; Kraków, Wawel Cathedral) presents a low-relief effigy of the deceased in full armour in a stance that recalls Dürer’s St Eustace from the Paumgärtner Altarpiece (c. 1502; Munich, Alte Pin.) and anticipates the statue of King Arthur for the Maximilian monument (see (2) above).
Part of the Vischer family
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