Robert Buhler R.A.
ARTIST: Robert Buhler R.A. (1916-1989) Swiss / British
TITLE: “The Butchers Board”
SIGNED: lower right
MEDIUM: oil on board
SIZE: 45cm x 34cm inc frame
CONDITION: excellent
PRICE: £sold
DETAIL: Painter and teacher, born in London of Swiss parentage, he was early encouraged to paint. In the early 1930s he studied painting initially in Zürich and Basle, and attended Bolt Court, St Martin’s School of Art and the Royal College of Art. He left the Royal College after a few months and with the help of a little money left to him took a studio and began to paint professionally, encouraged by the patron Edward Marsh. His mother had a café in Charlotte Street, so he became familiar with Fitzrovia and was friendly with the Euston Road School painters, whose style left an imprint on his work. Around the late 1930s Buhler did work for Shell-Mex and BP; was associated with the AIA; began a notable series of portraits with Dickie Green and Stephen Spender, bought by the Contemporary Art Society in 1938; and contributed to exhibitions at the Leicester Galleries. He exhibited with the NEAC from 1945, showed at the RA from 1946, becoming RA in 1956. Taught at Chelsea School of Art, Central School of Arts and Crafts and from 1948–75 was a tutor at the Royal College of Art. Three of his pictures were bought under the terms of the Chantrey Bequest and there are quite a lot in collections in the provinces and abroad. Buhler preferred to choose the subjects of his portraits, who included the critic John Davenport, the actor Sir Donald Wolfit and the poet Laurie Lee. In later life he concentrated more on landscape. Buhler, whose son was the painter Michael Buhler, lived in London.
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