Erik Adolf Fischer (Copenhagen, October 8, 1920 - December 14, 2011) was a Danish historian, who worked as a curator of the Royal Prints and Drawings at the National Art Gallery since 1948. After 1964 he was an inspector at the same institute. He retired in 1990. biography
Fischer graduated from the Baltic High School in Gade in 1938 and completed a doctoral degree in art history at the University of Copenhagen in 1948. He studied in Rome and Paris in 1946 - 47 and then made annual study trips to various countries. The lifelong endeavors of Eric Fischer helped to make the Danish collection of engravings known abroad. His own art-historical dissertation included research on the artist Melchior Lorck, Albrecht Dürer's engraving and etching, and Eckersberg's studies of perspective and proportion.
Fischer was also a professor at the University of Copenhagen from 1964 to 1990, where he had a profound influence on the different generations of Danish art historians.
Fischer has fulfilled many functions. He was the first president of the National Arts Fund, Jury of the IX and X Triennale in Milan in 1951 and 1954, Commissioner for Danish participation in the Venice Biennale in 1958 and 1964, member of the Danish Golden Age Exhibition Group Stockholm 1964, a member of the Danish Parliamentary Art Commission, 1967, Member of the Council for the Arts and the Danish National UNESCO Committee, Margrethe Queen Council and Prince Henrik Fund and the President of the International Advisory Board Graphic Arts Committee.
In 1989 he received the N.L. Hoyen Medaille and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen in 1991. He was also Erelid of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Knight in the Order of the Dannebrog in 1968, received the seldom awarded silver order of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1997, the exclusive Medio "Ingenio et Arti" in 1997 and the Danish Royal Reward Medal. He is also a Knight in the Swedish Order of the Polish Star.
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