Born 1827 in Lucerne, Swiss landscape painter Robert Zünd came from a middle-class family. He traveled to Paris in 1852. At the Louvre, he studied the works of the Dutch and French masters of the 17th Century. His first major work was The Harvest (1860), now in the Kunstmuseum Basel. That same year, he copied works by Claude Lorrain, Ruisdael, and Paulus Potter in the Gemälde Gallery, Dresden.
In 1882, Zünd completed Der Eichenwald (The Oak Forest), one of his best known works. The painting was exhibited in Zürich at the Schweizerische Landesausstellung of 1883. Today the picture is owned by the Kunsthaus Zürich.
Zünd died in 1909 in Lucerne, aged 81. In 1906, the University of Zürich awarded him an honorary doctorate, and a street in Lucerne is named after him. Here below is a set of beautiful paintings by Robert Zünd in the 19th century.
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