Frank Buchser
1828-1890
Frank Buchser was Swiss painter, world traveler, adventurer, fighter for assorted causes, womanizer.
Frank Buchser was a colorful figure by any standard, not in the least by those of his native Switzerland. As a young artist from Solothurn, he went beyond the paths generally trodden by Swiss artists – France, Germany and Italy – to such countries as Holland, England, and Spain, and further afield to North Africa and America.
Thought he spent prolonged periods of time abroad, he never became an expatriate, like so many nineteenth-century Swiss artists, rather, he always remained firmly attached to his native soil.
Though Buchser had had some academic training – he studied at the Academy of St. Luke in Rome for a year, in Paris for nine months and at the Antwerp Academy for sixteen months. His artistic development probably owed less to those teachers than to the lessons he learned from the Old Masters.
