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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
