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Léo-Paul Samuel Robert[1] (19 March 1851 - 10 September 1923), also known as Paul Robert, was a Swiss painter, known for his depictions of birds and other wildlife.

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Léo-Paul Robert
Born	19 March 1851  Biel/Bienne
Died	10 October 1923  (aged 72) Orvin
Alma mater	Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
Occupation	Painter, illustrator
Parent(s)	Aurèle Robert

Early life

Paul Robert was born in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, on 19 March 1851, to Aurèle Robert  [Wikidata],[2] who, like his brother Louis Léopold Robert was a painter.

Paul trained under his father, and then, in 1869, at the Munich Academy of Arts.[2]

After the death of his father in December 1871, he visited Verona, Venice, Ravenna, Bologna and Florence.[2]

Career

After initially painting allegories, Robert turned his talents next to landscapes, and eventually to watercolours of birds and caterpillars.

His painting Zéphyrs d'un beau soir won a gold medal when exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1877.[3]

From 1886 to 1894, he was responsible for the decoration of the staircase at the Musée des beaux-arts de Neuchâtel (now the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire),[2] comprising three monumental murals; still extant.[4]

He illustrated an edition of Jeremias Gotthelf's 1842 book The Black Spider.[3]

From 1891 to 1897 he was a member of the Swiss Federal Commission of Fine Arts and from 1894 to 1918 of the Commission of the Gottfried Keller Foundation.[3]

In 1900 he made a mosaic mural in glass, "The Age of History", also extant, and featuring the figures of Poetry and History, for the facade of the Bern Historical Museum.[5]

Robert was also ordained as a minister in the protestant tradition.[3]

He died on 10 October 1923 in Orvin, Switzerland.[2]

Legacy

Three of Robert's sons Théophile [Wikidata], Philippe [Wikidata] and Paul-André [Wikidata] were painters; Paul-André also painted nature subjects.[6]

Several of his works are in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire at Neuchâtel.

The Neues Museum Biel  [Wikidata] houses the 3,000 works of the "Foundation Robert",[6] including hundreds by Paul, and others by the rest of his family.[7]

The street Paul-Robert-Weg[8] in Biel/Bienne is named in his honour.

Gallery

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  The Echo in the Kunstmuseum Bern
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  Robert's painting of a Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra; circa 1870)
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  Glass mural at Bern Historical Museum

Works illustrated

• Rambert, Eugene (1916). Les Oiseaux Dans La Nature.

References

Further reading

• Rivier, Louis (1927). Le peintre Paul Robert: l'homme, l'artiste et l'oeuvre, le novateur (in French). Neuchâtel: Delachaux & Niestlé.
• Jackson, Christine E. (2005). Les oiseaux et leur peintre : Léo-Paul Robert (in French). Bienne: Edition Fondation Collection Robert. ISBN 3-9522989-3-X.
• Ehrensperger, Ingrid; Girardin-Cestone, Lucie; Gschwend, Hanspeter (2006). Die Welt der Vögel - Werke von Leo-Paul und Paul-Andre Robert (in German). Biel: Bern u. Zürich, Benteli Verlag im Auftrag d. Stiftung Sammlung Robert. ISBN 9783716514016.

External links

• Artists Inspired by Nature – Leo Paul Robert

На других языках

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[de] Léo-Paul Robert

Léo-Paul-Samuel Robert, (* 19. März 1851 in Biel/Bienne; † 10. Oktober 1923 in Orvin) war ein Schweizer Maler.

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- [en] Léo-Paul Robert

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[fr] Léo-Paul Robert

Léo-Paul Robert est un artiste peintre suisse né le 19 mars 1851 à Bienne et mort le 10 septembre 1923 à Orvin.

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[it] Léo-Paul Robert

Léo-Paul Samuel Robert, meglio noto solo come Léo-Paul Robert o anche Paul Robert (Bienne, 19 marzo 1851 – Orvin, 10 ottobre 1923), è stato un pittore svizzero.[1][2]

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