Lukas Vischer (collector)

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Lukas Vischer (1780-1840) was an amateur artist, traveler, and collector from Basel, Switzerland. During a nine-year residence in Mexico he assembled a notable collection of ancient Mexican sculptures and ceramics. Vischer's collection eventually formed a significant part of the holdings of the Museum of Cultures Basel (formerly the Ethnographic Museum Basel). It has been called one of the best European collections of pre-Columbian or Mesoamerican artifacts.

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• Lukas Vischer (1780-1840), Künstler, Reisender, Sammler: Ein Beitrag zur Ethnographie der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika sowie zur Archäologie und Volkskunde Mexikos, ed. Ferdinand Anders, Margarete Pfister-Burkhalter, and Christian F. Feest. (Völkerkündliche Abhandlungen 2.) Hannover: Münstermann, 1967. OCLC 7070705
• Gerhard Baer. Altmexikanische Skulpturen der Sammlung Lukas Vischer, Museum für Völkerkunde Basel. Basel: Wepf, 1990. ISBN 3-85977-094-2
• Ulf Bankmann and Gerhard Baer. Ancient Mexican Ceramics from the Lukas Vischer Collection, Ethnographic Museum Basel. Basel: Friedrich Reinhardt, 1996. ISBN 3-7245-0909-X

Persondata
NAME	Vischer, Lukas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Vischer, Lucas
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Swiss traveler and collector
DATE OF BIRTH	1780
PLACE OF BIRTH	Basel, Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH	1840
PLACE OF DEATH	Switzerland