Jean Henri Zuber (24 June 1844 – 7 April 1909) was a French landscape painter. He was born in Rixheim, in the Haut-Rhin département of Alsace. He served in the French navy from 1863 to 1868, and took part in the French campaign against Korea in 1866.[1]
Painting
Zuber entered the atelier of Charles Gleyre in 1868 and was admitted to the Salon des artistes français in 1869. In 1873 he published an account of his experiences in Korea, with his own illustrations, in the Hachette periodical Le Tour du Monde.[2]
From 1884 he is listed as a member of the Société d'aquarellistes français or "French society of watercolourists".[3]
In 1886 he was made a knight of the Légion d'honneur.
Zuber died in Paris on 7 April 1909.[1]
References
Angel Ingold (ed.), Antoine Meyer (photographs). (1887–1888). Biographies alsaciennes avec portraits en photographie, fourth series (in French). Colmar: Antoine Meyer. [unpaginated; screen 164–168/286]. Accessed September 2013.
Henri Zuber (1873). Une expédition en Corée, 1866. Le Tour du monde: Nouveau journal des voyages. Paris; London: Hachette. 25: 401-416.
[s.n.] (1879). Société d'aquarellistes français: Première exposition; rue Laffitte, 16: Catalogue (in French). Paris: Imprimerie de D. Jouaust.
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