Henri Zuber | |
Birth Name: | Jean Henri Zuber |
Birth Date: | 24 June 1844 |
Birth Place: | Rixheim, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France |
Death Date: | 7 April 1909 |
Death Place: | Paris, France |
Nationality: | French |
Field: | landscape |
Awards: | Legion of Honour - Knight (1886) |
Elected: | 1869 Salon des artistes français 1884 Société d'aquarellistes français |
< | -- --> Henri Zuber, Entrée du port de Gênes ("Entrance to the port of Genova"), 1876 |
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< | -- --> Henri Zuber, Le Troupeau de Vieux-Ferrette ("The flock of Vieux-Ferrette"), 1884 |
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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 France's .
Zuber died in Paris on 7 April 1909.[1] His grandfather was Jean Zuber, founder of Zuber & Cie in Rixheim.