Matthias Fischer

American Impressionist painter Matthias Fischer began his career in art early in his life. Fischer recalls his childhood, growing up in Europe in a small country village in the German county of Sayn–Wittgenstein–Berleburg as very influentual to his evolving artistic career. The isolation and remoteness taught Matthias early on a self-preservation through hard work and perseverance. Fischer remembers those times with affection and wonder. “All my experiences as a country boy, in a time and place where things were very innocent, grafted onto my life.” Fischer says. “These memories seeded so deeply into my soul that the move to the big city was not to diminish my country roots.

Matthias is, as he calls it, “an observer of life”. His quiet nature allows him to absorb his surroundings while projecting and retaining images in the back of his mind. “You must not paint what you see... You must paint what you remember..." he quotes Edgar Degas.” “Pictures and images are MY world” Fischer contends. “There are so many fleeting moments, so many poetic reflections that spring from my childhood. In retrospect, what a blessing to have grown up in a place of isolation, a place which nurtured all my artistic sensibilities and pursuits.”