Ulrick Fisher, Palm Beach. Oil on canvas, 30 by 36 inches.
Ulrich Fisher (name changed from Fischer to Fisher while living in Daytona Beach) was a marine painter and the husband of artist Irmgard Fisher. In 1937 the Fischer’s opened Fischer Studios, in the Lakeview Arcade at the west end of Royal Palm Way near the bridge, in Palm Beach. Ulrich did large murals for the cocktail lounge of the Coral Gables Biltmore Hotel, the Bradley Club in Palm Beach ( a popular gambling casino), and four large paintings for the Buffalo Avenue Baptist Church in Tampa.
The Daytona Beach Sunday News Journal, January 21, 1940, contains the following on Fischer, who at the time was still spelling his name Fischer, “Ulrich Fischer, who will present landscapes, marine studies and a fascinating exhibit of silk murals, was born in Germany near the Baltic and spent most of his life either near or on the ocean, accounting as he says, for his love of marine landscapes. Fischer has studied and exhibited in various prominent continental schools and galleries. He became dissatisfied with life in Germany and came to the United States. In Buenos Aires, Argentina he was awarded the Gold Medal of the National Society of Decorative Arts.” The Fisher’s later moved to Fort Lauderdale.
Born: Germany.
Education: Germany; Art Students League, New York.
Membership: Florida Federation Art; Orlando Art Association; Society of The Four Arts; Daytona Beach Art League.
Exhibits: Washington Art Galleries Miami Beach; Daytona Beach Casino, January 1940; Daytona Beach Art League, 9th Annual, March 1941, honorable mention, professional, oil landscape, Fisher’s Marine; Florida Federation of Art, December 1941, Tampa, Tropical Sea, Heavy Swells; Daytona Beach Art League, 10th Annual, March 1942, marines, 1st, 2nd prizes; Daytona Beach Naval Airbase, January 1943; Florida Federation of Art, 19th Annual exhibit, Miami Beach, December 1945, Rocks at Marineland, Fla.; Society of The Four Arts, 10th Annual Members Exhibit, Palm Beach, December 1947-January 1948; Washington Art Galleries, Miami Beach, November 1948.
Directory: Listed (as Fischer Studios) in the West Palm Beach City Directory, 1938, as a commercial artist, with studio at 101 Lakeview Avenue, Room 9. Listed in the Ft. Lauderdale City Directory (as Fisher) in 1955-57, 1959 as an artist with a studio at 813 S.E. 6th.
