He was born the seventh child of nine to parents Frederick Louis Fischer and Martha Lena Johanna Nielander. He married Mary Dorothy Latimer March 13, 1941 in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. They had two children, Joan and Richard. As a young man he worked in his father's construction business by day and attended Carnegie Institute of Technology School of Design at night. He hoped for a career in the field of commercial art. He worked as an ordinary seaman on the tanker S.S. Manatawny for 6 months 1928-1929. Returning during the depression, he was offered a job with Century Wood Preserving Company in Delaware. It was there that he met his wife. He relocated to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania about 1936 with his wife and two children, and worked for Koppers Company, retiring in 1964. He was then able to devote his full time to what he loved best, his art. He gave hundreds of his paintings to family and friends, and donated over 200 of his lifetime works to the Mt. Lebanon Women's Society (Mt. Lebanon, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania), which sold the paintings to raise money to support an orphange in Pusan, Korea.
He was born the seventh child of nine to parents Frederick Louis Fischer and Martha Lena Johanna Nielander. He married Mary Dorothy Latimer March 13, 1941 in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. They had two children, Joan and Richard. As a young man he worked in his father's construction business by day and attended Carnegie Institute of Technology School of Design at night. He hoped for a career in the field of commercial art. He worked as an ordinary seaman on the tanker S.S. Manatawny for 6 months 1928-1929. Returning during the depression, he was offered a job with Century Wood Preserving Company in Delaware. It was there that he met his wife. He relocated to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania about 1936 with his wife and two children, and worked for Koppers Company, retiring in 1964. He was then able to devote his full time to what he loved best, his art. He gave hundreds of his paintings to family and friends, and donated over 200 of his lifetime works to the Mt. Lebanon Women's Society (Mt. Lebanon, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania), which sold the paintings to raise money to support an orphange in Pusan, Korea.
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