Fritz Zuber-Buhler

Training under Louis-Aimé Grosclaude and François-Édouard Picot is recorded. Thomas Couture, William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Paul Delaroche are recorded as an influence. Places of work recorded in the authority are Berlin, Rome and Paris. Work by Fritz Zuber-Buhler is recorded in the collections of Harvard Art Museums, Musée Fabre and Museum of John Paul II Collection.

At sixteen years of age he moved to Paris, France where found his first teacher, Louis Grosclaude. Later he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and then refined his technical skills with François-Édouard Picot, who followed the same lineage of contemporaneous artists such as Léon Perrault, Bouguereau, and Alexandre Cabanel. Afterwards he spent some time in Italy searching for inspiration; he may have also studied in Berlin. After five years abroad, he returned to Paris, where he made his debut at the Salon of 1850. In subsequent Salons he showed works in many media: oil paintings, drawings, pastels and watercolors. His painting Innocence shows his romantic view of the peasant children and their environment. He painted mythological and religious subjects, as well as commissioned portraits. Zuber-Buhler exhibited in the United States at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and achieved considerable success. He exhibited at the Salon (Paris) until 1891, by which time the European academic tradition he represented was past its heyday.

• Illustration — Nymph in the forest • Illustration — A young beauty holding a bouquet of flowers • Illustration — Girl with wreath • Illustration — Dressing up • Illustration — Idyll in deep forest • Illustration — The cherry thieves • Illustration — The pet kitten • Illustration — The first cherries • Illustration — Innocence • Illustration — Young girl holding a doll