Robert Zünd (1827 – Lucerne – 1909) An Uprooted Tree Oil on paper, laid down on card, 16.5 x 28.4 cm Provenance:Private collection, Switzerland Robert Zünd studied painting and drawing in the studio of Jakob Schwegler. He moved to Geneva in 1848, where he worked under two of Switzerland’s leading landscapists, François Diday (1802-77)…
Robert Zünd (1827 – Lucerne – 1909) View over Lake Lucerne towards Mount Rigi, 1855 Oil on canvas, 23.7 x 36 cmDated lower right 6. Oct. 55Estate stamps on the verso; a topographical inscription on the stretcher reads Blick auf (die) Rigi Provenance:The artist’s estatePrivate collection, Switzerland Literature:Hermann Uhde-Bernays, Robert Zünd, Basel 1926, plate VI…
Robert Zünd (1827 – Lucerne – 1909) Eichwald [Oak Forest] Oil on canvas, 79 x 52 cmSigned lower left R. Zünd Provenance:Private collection, Switzerland (acquired c.1965) Robert Zünd’s œuvre occupies a unique position in nineteenth-century landscape painting. He was a painter who – as his contemporary the writer Gottfried Keller observed – depicted precisely those…
Robert Zünd(1827 – Lucerne, Switzerland – 1909) Storm-Ridden Landscape, 1854 Oil on canvas, 40 x 27.5 cmDated lower right 18 July 54 Provenance:Asbjørn Lunde (1927-2017), New York, from 2000, inv. 238. Exhibited:Den ville natur. Sveitisk og norsk romantikk. Malerier fra Asbjørn Lundes samling, Tromsø, Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum and Bergen Billedgalleri, 2007, pp. 98-9, no. 26;Alpine Views:…