European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse Camera clicking away obliviously As his mount threatens to toss him Over the is Carl Fischer whimsical impression of the incorrigible City sightseer turned Loose in the Tranquility of the he found his own Way the loss of his hands Hast meant the of painting for Frankfurt artist Carl Fischer Frankfurt shortly before the end of the fragments from a bomb that burst in the station at Fulda Dur ing an air raid Cost Illustrator Carl Fischer an artists most essential tools two when doctors found him lying amid the sketches he had finished the Day before in he begged them to save his right but there was nothing left to that but his he found his own Way to save that friends of the bespectacled artist Shook their Heads sadly when they heard the poor they finished at it seemed doubtful that the former Frankfurt caricaturist would Ever again earn a livelihood by to a Man with less courage and this loss might have meant the end of a but for Fischer his Handicap has been a Challenge to make a fresh today in the Small East Frankfurt apartment where he lives with his wife and Niney Earold son Fischer using a technique never before recorded in the world of by grasping his pencils and brushes in his the handles artist is painting As he never painted critics and friends say his born of necessity and developed by months of painstaking has Given the work of Fischer a depth that it did not have two years whether his technique or the superhuman expenditure or Effort to paint again is responsible for the new fineness in his he is at a loss to Carl Fischer is a modest whose loss and personal suffer Ings have Given him an optimistic they used to say that i was Only a Good he now i am called a Good artist Fischer had always wanted to be an while clerking in a Small Frankfurt he used to dream of quitting his Job to when he was he left his clerking career and enrolled at a Frankfurt Art before he had finished a year of Art he landed a Job with the illustrated supplement of the Frankfurter where he remained As a cartoonist and make up artist until the Day he lost both now they Are my he indicating his wife and Young Blond they keep my Art things Laid out where i can get at and feed and dress Young son Klaus Hopes be an artist himself some Day and is his fathers most enthusiastic and the Walls of Fischer tiny studio Are Hung with framed illustrations from Don Quixote and Gul livers a single desk holds the artists tools with their tooth marked ends protruding Over the Edge so that the Painter can grasp them firmly with one Quick Duck of his he keeps his Watercolours in the top drawer of the table which he has Learned to pull out with his those first few Days in an Over crowded Fulda Hospital after his Acci Dent were most Fischer As he Lay in bed staring at the praying that he might find some Way to paint he kept remembering that someone once said that Raphael if need have painted without rising his lying in the Little Fischer tried to imagine How that remark could possibly be translated in for he he amused himself and his fellow patients by sketching his ideas in the air with his if it were possible to paint with ones Why not with the he asked himself a few weeks later when he was released from the Hospital and moved to his Fischer asked his wife to bring his pencils and brushes and place them on his he practice stooping Down and grasping each article with his Fischer until the action became on the nineteenth of scarcely four months after the Acci human Hove reached the Fischer where bribery is daily Fischer was ready to try his a Large Sheet of drawing paper was tacked to a special table easel and put before his first strokes were but slowly the technique became and the finished sketch was head of a next he Drew the same Lions head on the Back of a signed it opus one and mailed it to a since that Day two years hundreds of characters have shape Jan Fischer drawing for his subject he draws from the realm of especially Balzac and his his own keen imagination and memory Are his the next few a Vav Stuttgart publishing House will release a series of childrens books by the handles instead of the tales of military valor and con quest which irked the artist As a his Youthful readers will be introduced to a whimsical world in like Walt Disney and Fischer tells his fables with so deft has Fischer become with a pen in his Teeth that he his own which his friends cant distinguish from the style of his hand writing of three years he has also Learned to turn on a radio and to open doors using his head and last june was crucial for the artist his first Oneman show was to be held in bad nauheim and Fischer was afraid that in spite of whatever merits his paintings might they would be judged As the compositions of an artistic hundreds turned out to see what a handles artist could but the critics among them agreed that the merits of the Painter spoke for themselves and his courage might Well be an example for crippled veterans the world while his Handicap May have helped open the door to Success for Carl Fischer As an his admirers believe that time will give him a place in the of Germany Best Illus
