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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.
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]
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]
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.
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. ISBN3-9522989-3-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. ISBN9783716514016.
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