Robert Buhler

Robert Buhler RA (23 November 1916 – 20 June 1989) was a Swiss landscape and portrait artist who was born in England, where he mostly worked.

In Switzerland his name is spelled Bühler.

Early life Buhler was born in London to Swiss parents, Robert Buhler and Lucie Kronig, who had married there. His father was a journalist and aircraft designer.

When the National Registration Act 1939 recorded all residents in October 1939, Buhler's parents were divorced, and he and his first wife were living in Doughty Street, St Pancras, where he was registered as "Painter, Commercial Artist".

Career Buhler painted London scenes and exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions from 1945 to 1948. While mostly a painter of places, he was also a portrait artist, his sitters including Francis Bacon, Barnett Freedman, John Minton, Ruskin Spear, Stephen Spender, and Edith Evans playing Volumnia in Coriolanus.

Buhler exhibited at many galleries and taught at the Wimbledon School of Art, the Royal College of Art, the Chelsea School of Art and the Central School of Arts and Crafts.

In 1948 Buhler joined the London Group. On 21 February 1956 he was promoted to a full Royal Academician, and they had one son,

Buhler’s son Michael, who also became an artist, was taught by his father at the Royal College of Art. He recalled his father suffering from visits from bailiffs as late as the 1960s "with patches on the walls where paintings had been, and ominous gaps among the furniture."

Buhler died on 20 June 1989,