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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| Evening on the Lakeside |
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| At Lake Lucerne with a View of the Vitznauerstock |
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| At Lake Sempach |
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| At the Sempach Battle Chapel |
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| Beech Forest |
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| Bertischwyl bei Rothenburg |
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| Chestnut Tree |
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| Cornfield with Oaks |
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| Farmers with Oxen Harrowing |
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| Forest Path |
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| Harvesting |
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| Hay Harvest |
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| Lake Lauerz |
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| Lake Lucerne With a View of the Rigi Flank |
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| Lake Lucerne |
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| Landscape (Scouts From the Land of Canaan) |
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| Landscape near Lucerne with View to Mount Rigi |
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| Landscape on Lake Lucerne |
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| Landscape With Herd of Cattle by a Stream |
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| Oak Forest |
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| Oak Forest |
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| On the Schanz near Lucerne |
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| Overlooking Lake Lucerne |
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| Path at the Edge of the Forest |
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| Sowing |
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| The Harvest |
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| The Mill of Rathausen |
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| View from Schonbühl to the Vitznauerstock |
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| View from Schwyz towards Rigi |
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| View of Lucerne from Stollberg |
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