Fritz Zuber-Buhler

Fritz Zuber-Buhler (1822 – November 23, 1896) was a Swiss painter in the style of Academic Classicism, born at Le Locle in Switzerland.

[1] 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.

In subsequent Salons he showed works in many media: oil paintings, drawings, pastels and watercolors.

Zuber-Buhler exhibited in the United States at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and achieved considerable success.