David Sulzer (painter)

After taking drawing lessons at a local school, he trained as a painter in Zürich and Bern.

In 1803 he, Hans Jakob Oeri, and some other friends took a trip to Paris, where he copied works by the Old Masters and trained in the studios of Jacques Louis David for eight years.

After that, he worked in Bern and Winterthur, where he did portraits of the members of notable bourgeois industrial families.

In 1817, he entered the nobility by marrying Franziska Katharina Freiin von Lütgendorff-Leinburg (1787 - 1862), with whom he had four sons.

No solo exhibition has ever been devoted to him although, in the early 1900s, some showings prominently presented his works with other Swiss painters.