Henri Zuber

Jean Henri Zuber 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 |French campaign] against Korea in 1866.

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.
From 1884, he is listed as a member of the Société d'aquarellistes français or "French society of watercolourists".
In 1886, he was made a knight of France's Légion d'honneur.
Zuber died in Paris on 7 April 1909. His grandfather was Jean Zuber, founder of Zuber & Cie in Rixheim.