Author: Fischer, Joseph.
Title: A Jewish Synagogue in Vienna.
Description: Date: 1797. Original aquatint & etching. Size (image): 21.7 x 24.5 cm & (inc. margins) 25.3 x 27.0 cm. - Margins cut short up untill the platemark, minor repairs at the corners, skilfully matted under acid-free cardboard.* Proof-impression, thus very rare. German captions in pencil by the artist (?). Joseph Fisher (1769-1822) was born in Vienna and was a well known Austrian painter and engraver. He studied painting and engraving together with Johann Christian Brand and Jacob Matthius Schmutzer at the academy in Vienna. In 1802 he travels to Paris where he executes a series of prints destined for an illustrated edition of Racine. He becomes a professor at the Viennese academy in 1821. Noticeable paintings are A view on Vienna and a rural landscape which both are exhibited at the Gallery of Vienna. His most prominent engravings are: Christ at the Temple, The adulteress and Le portrait du Corrège. Fischer dies on September 5th 1822 in Vienna. This depiction displays a group of men in prayer at the Viennese synagogue.

Keywords: Graphic Judaïca Grafiek Judaïca