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PREFACE
FOR those who knew Oskar Fischel it is impossible to think of his life apart
from Raphael.
Beginning with a dissertation on Raphael’s drawings, he made it his
endeavour, with an ever-growing knowledge of Raphael, to arrive at a com-
prehensive representation, and this he has left behind to us in this book.
It is evidence of ardent and painstaking efforts to solve the great miracle of
this artist and at the same time shows clearly the happiness brought by admir-
ation of Raphael into the life of his devoted advocate. What is said in these
pages deserves to be carefully studied as a theme very near to the heart of the
author. The illustrations gathered together by him over a period of many
years were intended, in the selection here provided, to induce the reader to
seek out the works of the artist in the original. In an age which follows entirely
different paths in its own artistic productions, the author’s desire was, in the
face of indifference and prejudice, to lead the way to Raphael as the great
creator and helper. Of the following that Oskar Fischel gathered round him
at Berlin University, many are no longer alive.
As it is now in the English language that the book makes its first appearance,
I should like to thank Mr. Bernard Rackham for his faithful work of translation;
I have also to thank Dr. Otto Kurz for carefully revising the Catalogue Raisonne of
Raphael’s works. Acknowledgment is also due to the Publishers, who have
brought out the book in so worthy a manner. It is not possible for me to mention
by name all those who were associated with the life work of my husband and to
whom he felt enduringly grateful.
Margarete Fischel.
London, 27th June, 1946.
ix
FOR those who knew Oskar Fischel it is impossible to think of his life apart
from Raphael.
Beginning with a dissertation on Raphael’s drawings, he made it his
endeavour, with an ever-growing knowledge of Raphael, to arrive at a com-
prehensive representation, and this he has left behind to us in this book.
It is evidence of ardent and painstaking efforts to solve the great miracle of
this artist and at the same time shows clearly the happiness brought by admir-
ation of Raphael into the life of his devoted advocate. What is said in these
pages deserves to be carefully studied as a theme very near to the heart of the
author. The illustrations gathered together by him over a period of many
years were intended, in the selection here provided, to induce the reader to
seek out the works of the artist in the original. In an age which follows entirely
different paths in its own artistic productions, the author’s desire was, in the
face of indifference and prejudice, to lead the way to Raphael as the great
creator and helper. Of the following that Oskar Fischel gathered round him
at Berlin University, many are no longer alive.
As it is now in the English language that the book makes its first appearance,
I should like to thank Mr. Bernard Rackham for his faithful work of translation;
I have also to thank Dr. Otto Kurz for carefully revising the Catalogue Raisonne of
Raphael’s works. Acknowledgment is also due to the Publishers, who have
brought out the book in so worthy a manner. It is not possible for me to mention
by name all those who were associated with the life work of my husband and to
whom he felt enduringly grateful.
Margarete Fischel.
London, 27th June, 1946.
ix