Word: vischer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...takes guts and it takes loyalty to build a cooperative organization." Thus spake Aaron Sapiro, last week, to Star Reporter Peter Vischer of Exhibitors Herald & Moving Picture World. Father of many a cooperative, bitter enemy of Henry Ford, Mr. Sapiro's latest venture has been the Independent Motion Pictures Exhibitors Association, of which the purpose is to permit the owners of small cinemansions to wield a more potent influence upon the large and exclusive companies which make cinemas...
Another reproduction which attracted Dr. Zimmermann's attention was the cast of the Nuremberg Madonna, the original wooden statue of which, made in the work-shop of Peter Vischer, is conceded to be the finest early German sculpture, and is in the Nuremberg Germanic Museum...
...Also editor of Polo. Mr. Vischer is considered by many to be the best polo writer...
...white cottage in Hempstead he painted polo ponies and portraits of their owners brilliantly, surely, with a perfection born of complete knowledge. Last week art critics who had forgotten Maler Ludwig Koch, painter of horses, were shamed by able polo expert for the New York World, Peter Vischer.* Expert Vischer listened to the old artist speaking of the days, long before the War, when he had lived in Vienna, ridden through misted bridle paths with noblemen in red coats and silver spurs, painted Lippiza and Kladrub, horses of the Emperor Franz Josef. Then Expert Vischer looked at some...
...pointed out that no other museum anywhere contains as full a reproduction of this extraordinary group of monuments. And similar things may be said of our representation of Renaissance and Baroque sculpture. For I know of no other museum which exhibits the work of the great bronze founder Peter Vischer as comprehensively as ours or which, with the exception of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum at Berlin, has like ours a full-size reproduction of Andreas Schlucter's Great Elector, next to Verecchio's Colleoni the most remarkable equestrian statue in Europe. This whole collection of monumental casts, then, in connection...