Hugo Anton Fisher

Who was Hugo Anton Fisher?

Hugo Anton Fisher was an artist primarily known for painting landscapes in watercolor. He was born into a family of artists in Kladno, Czechoslovakia. In 1874, he immigrated to New York, and in 1886, he moved to Alameda, California with his wife and children. 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, was a California-based impressionist painter. The Adirondack Museum, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Jersey City Museum, the Oakland Museum of California, and Thiel College are among the public collections holding work by Hugo Anton Fisher.