Robert Zünd

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Robert Zünd (born May 3, 1827 in Lucerne ; † January 15, 1909 in Lucerne) was a Swiss painter .

Life

Robert Zünd was the son of a middle-class family. After attending high school in Lucerne, he was in the studio of James Schwegler in (1793-1866) drawing and painting taught. At the suggestion of the Nidwalden painter Joseph Zelger, he moved to Geneva in 1848 , where he was taught first by François Diday and later by his pupil Alexandre Calame .

In the spring of 1851 he met Rudolf Koller , with whom he became a great friend. A planned studio community between the two of them did not materialize because each of them was too closely connected to their hometown. In 1889 the two went to the international art exhibition in Munich .

In 1852, Zünd traveled to Paris and studied the works of Dutch and French masters of the 17th century in the Louvre . In 1860, Zünd's first major work, The Harvest , was created today in the Basel Art Museum . In the same year he copied works by Claude Lorrain , Ruisdael and Paulus Potter in the picture gallery in Dresden .

In 1863, Zünd settled on the outskirts of Lucerne, which he then rarely left for long periods of time. Between 1867 and 1877, Zünd's faith was shown in the fact that he included biblical motifs in his pictures, for example in The Walk to Emmaus from 1877.

In 1882 he completed the oak forest , one of his most famous works. The picture was based on an older study and a smaller version from 1859. In 1881, Gottfried Keller visited Zünd in his studio on his “Modest Art Screech” and was very impressed by the large version. He saw in it approaches to the true ideal real landscape or the real ideal landscape. The oak forest was exhibited at the Zurich State Exhibition in 1883 . A black and white reproduction of the oak forest was kept for a photographic shot. Today the picture is in the possession of the Kunsthaus Zürich . His corresponding large-format picture Buchenwald was created between 1886 and 1887 and is now in the Lucerne Art Museum .

In 1906 the University of Zurich appointed Robert Zünd an honorary doctorate. A street northeast of the main train station in Lucerne is named after Zünd . His grave is in the Hofkirche Sankt Leodegar in Lucerne.

Conception of art

Zünd's approach to art is characterized by a special closeness to nature and his extremely naturalistic, detailed painting style. His motifs were mainly idyllic landscapes around Lucerne. He avoided showing modern systems and buildings such as railways in his pictures.

In his landscape pictures, the individual elements are arranged according to the principles of classical composition theory.

Works (selection)

  • Eichwald , 1882

  • Hunters in oak forest clearing

  • The Harvest , 1859

  • At the Sempach battle chapel , 1867

  • Cornfield with Oaks , 1875

  • Walk to Emmaus , 1877

  • Buchenwald , 1887

  • Farmers with team of oxen ,
    around 1900

literature

  • Istvan Balogh, Esther van der Bie (Ed.): Animated Landscape: Staging; Robert Zünd - painting - photography of his time . Christoph-Merian, Basel 2002, ISBN 3-85616-182-1 (on the occasion of the exhibition at the Kunsthaus Langenthal, September 5 to November 3, 2002).
  • Christian Klemm (Ed.): From Anker to Zünd - Art in the Young Federal State 1848–1900 . Kunsthaus Zürich, 1998, ISBN 3-906574-00-8 (exhibition catalog Kunsthaus Zürich, February 13 to May 10, 1998, Musée d'Art de d'Histoire Geneva, June 4 to September 13, 1998).
  • Susanne Neubauer (Ed.): Robert Zünd . Benteli, Wabern / Bern 2004, ISBN 978-3-7165-1359-0 . (Exhibition catalog, Kunstmuseum Luzern, June 12th - September 26th, 2004).
  • Franz Zelger (Ed.): Robert Zünd in his time . Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1978, exhibition catalog July 1 to September 10, 1978.

Web links

Commons : Robert Zünd  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KC Mellem, Robert Savary: Dr Robert Zünd. In: Find a Grave . June 16, 2017, accessed October 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Zünd, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1909
Place of death Lucerne