Arthur Bedford Knapp Fisher ( 1888-1965) watercolour of The Church of St Lorentz, Sils Baselgia, Switzerland 1935

The Church of St Lorentz at Sils Baselgia, Engadin, Switzerland.
Painted in watercolour signed and dated 1935, framed and mounted.
Arthur Bedford Knapp-Fisher was born in Kensington, London, England on 15 March 1888. After studying at the Architectural Association Schools in London from 1906 to 1908, he was articled to Charles Sydney Spooner (1862-1938) from 1909 to 1911, and remained with him as his assistant in 1912. He qualified as an architect in 1913 and subsequently established a practice as an independent architect in London. In 1919, with Andrew Laurence Noel Russell (1887-1969) and Lawrence Powell (1888-1973), he was a partner in the firm of Knapp-Fisher, Powell & Russell in London, which was acive until at least the early 1950s.

He was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1914. He was Professor of Architecture at the Royal College of Art in London from c.1933 to c.1940.

Knapp-Fisher was also a painter. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Redfern Gallery, and at at the Ridley Art Club in London. He died in Sudbury, Suffolk in June 1965. His son, John Arthur Knapp-Fisher (1931-2015) was a professional artist.