DOI Heft:
No. 228 (March 1912)
DOI Artikel:Honoré, Léopold: An Alsatian landscpae painter: Henri Zuber
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21156#0131
Henri Zuber
“TERRASSE D’OLIVIERS AU CAP D’ANTIBES
BY HENRI ZUBER
de Ferrette, and his Soir dAutomne, exhibited in
1878, gained him a medal of the second class, which
placed him hors concours. At the great exhibition
of 1889 and again in that of 1900 he carried off a
gold medal. Created Chevalier of the Legion of
Honour in 1886, he received the Officer’s cross in
1906. By his deep sympathy, the refinement of
his character, his authority, his uprightness, as well
as his wide knowledge, Zuber became one of the
most prominent members of the Society des
Artistes Frangais, and his dexterity, judgment, and
delicate technique were rightly appreciated by his
colleagues, as well as by the very many young
artists whom he often befriended.
“ Why do you come to see me ? ” he said one day
to one of these, who had had an excellent picture
hung at the Salon, and who came to Zuber to try
to gain his influence on his behalf to help him
towards getting a prize. “ I should have been de-
lighted to vote for you, for you deserve it, but now
I shall do so with regret, since you think that this
action on your part has had some effect upon my
decision.” Does not this little anecdote shed a
light upon the character of the man ? He did not
confine himself merely to bestowing official en-
couragement upon the many young artists in whose
careers he interested himself, but went further and
devoted his attention to their work, and to their
progress, and in a private capacity gave them many
proofs of his sympathy, even going so far as to
purchase pictures from some whom he knew to be
in poverty—and he did this with a tact and delicacy
that enhanced the value of his help.
High as he placed his art, he never allowed this
to interfere with or to alter his conception of the
family life. His home, graciously presided over by
a sweet and devoted wife, worthy to share his tastes,
his ideas, and feelings, was particularly dear to him.
What happiness would be his, he said to the
writer shortly before his death, if he could gather
all his loved ones around him again in the home
he had so long adorned ! He left a large family—
seven children, who in their various careers are
worthy of their father, of the fine artist whose
charm and whose noble heart were most to be
appreciated in his private life.
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“TERRASSE D’OLIVIERS AU CAP D’ANTIBES
BY HENRI ZUBER
de Ferrette, and his Soir dAutomne, exhibited in
1878, gained him a medal of the second class, which
placed him hors concours. At the great exhibition
of 1889 and again in that of 1900 he carried off a
gold medal. Created Chevalier of the Legion of
Honour in 1886, he received the Officer’s cross in
1906. By his deep sympathy, the refinement of
his character, his authority, his uprightness, as well
as his wide knowledge, Zuber became one of the
most prominent members of the Society des
Artistes Frangais, and his dexterity, judgment, and
delicate technique were rightly appreciated by his
colleagues, as well as by the very many young
artists whom he often befriended.
“ Why do you come to see me ? ” he said one day
to one of these, who had had an excellent picture
hung at the Salon, and who came to Zuber to try
to gain his influence on his behalf to help him
towards getting a prize. “ I should have been de-
lighted to vote for you, for you deserve it, but now
I shall do so with regret, since you think that this
action on your part has had some effect upon my
decision.” Does not this little anecdote shed a
light upon the character of the man ? He did not
confine himself merely to bestowing official en-
couragement upon the many young artists in whose
careers he interested himself, but went further and
devoted his attention to their work, and to their
progress, and in a private capacity gave them many
proofs of his sympathy, even going so far as to
purchase pictures from some whom he knew to be
in poverty—and he did this with a tact and delicacy
that enhanced the value of his help.
High as he placed his art, he never allowed this
to interfere with or to alter his conception of the
family life. His home, graciously presided over by
a sweet and devoted wife, worthy to share his tastes,
his ideas, and feelings, was particularly dear to him.
What happiness would be his, he said to the
writer shortly before his death, if he could gather
all his loved ones around him again in the home
he had so long adorned ! He left a large family—
seven children, who in their various careers are
worthy of their father, of the fine artist whose
charm and whose noble heart were most to be
appreciated in his private life.
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