| Biography | Details |
|---|---|
| in Augsburg | |
| Remark: The Graz church registers list Tobias Fetscher from Augsburg as the father of Franz Josef Fetscher. However, the Augsburg birth registers only contain an entry for the birth of a son of Tobias Fetscher named Josef Tobias. Therefore, the stated birth date is not definitively established. | |
| * ? | later 1st wife Maria Susanna Pflänzl in Hartberg |
| oo1691 | Maria Susanna married Anton Bernhard Rethi |
| ✝︎1698 | Anton Bernhard Rethi |
| before 1709 | citizen of Graz |
| widow Maria Susanna Rethis née Pflänzl | |
| *1710 | Jacquired a monopoly throughout Styria and enriched himself by taking over the lease of the tax on playing cards, which had been introduced in 1694. He found a market not only in Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola (now Slovenia), but also exported to Hungary. |
| wife Maria Susanna | |
| Maria Clara Fornällin | |
| *1714-✝︎1715 | Maria Anna |
| 1715 | The apprentice Ignaz Ströbel is acquitted as a journeyman. |
| *1715-12-10 | Joseph Franz |
| Remark: It is unclear whether he or his elder brother Franz Georg is his father's successor. | |
| *1717 | Anton Karl |
| *1719 | Anna Therresia |
| *1720-✝︎1721 | Maria Anna |
| *1722 | Matthias Caspar |
| 1722 | Joseph Fetscher was "among others" called upon to supply paper to the magistrate |
| *1723-03-29 | Franz Georg |
| Remark: It is unclear whether he or his younger brother Josef Franz is his father's successor. | |
| *1725-✝︎1725 | Johann Nepomuk Christoph |
| *1726-✝︎1726 | Maria Anna Clara |
| *1727-✝︎1735 | Ferdinand Johannes Nepomuk |
| *1731 | Franz Xaver Cajetan |
| 1732 | The apprentice Andreas Haußzweig is acquitted as a journeyman. |
| Remark: In 1745, Andreas Hauszweig married Elisabeth Albrecht, the widow of a playing card painter in Laibach, and presumably took over his workshop. | |
| 1736-1776 | He and later his son were the owners of the house at Griesgasse No. 11/ Nikolaikai No. 18 named "Roter Igel" (Red Hedgehog) |
| 1743 | Simon Eckart was taken on as an apprentice. After the death of his master in 1744, he continued his apprenticeship in Vienna with Franz Fetscher |
| is son Franz takes over the workshop |
The children's subsequent fates are largely unknown;
only Franz continued working as a playing card maker.
Matthias became an officer at the toll station at the Murtor gate,
while Anton may have become a pharmacist.
Further details about his widow are currently unknown; she has presumably remarried.
Fritz Popelka, Geschichte der Stadt Graz, Verlag Styria 1959
Sigmar Radau, Die Familie Fetscher, In: Talon 5, 1996
Klaus Reisinger, Von Lyon nach Wien
Klaus Reisinger, Trappola
Dollhouse cards (German suit signs)
(British Museum, 1896,0129.1.61)
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Lyon pattern
(German National Museum, Nuremberg)
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Trappola
(British Museum 1896,0501.337)
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Trappola
(Private collection, apparently from the same printing block as above)
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Trappola
(Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin)
Trappola
(Deutsches Spielkartenmuseum Leinfelden, B 333)
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wrapper for playing cards
(Cary Collection AUSwrapper8)
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wrapper for playing cards
(Cary Collection AUSwrapper1 - missing)
unknown type of playing cards
(Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv)