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Hugo Anton Fisher was an artist primarily known for painting landscapes in watercolor.

Background

He was born into a family of artists in Kladno, Czechoslovakia.

Career

About 1894, Fisher moved to Hawaii and opened a studio in Honolulu, but he left Hawaii for the mainland late in 1896. Fisher died in Alameda, California in 1916. One of Fisher’s children, Hugo Melville Fisher (1878–1946), was a California-based impressionist painter.

The Adirondack Museum (Blue Mountain Lake, New York), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Hawaii State Art Museum, the Jersey City Museum (Jersey City, New Jersey), the Oakland Museum of California, and Thiel College (Greenville, Pennsylvania) are among the public collections holding work by Hugo Anton Fisher.