Joseph Zimmermann II.
Born in 1830.
Died in 1871.
Joseph Zimmermann II. was a painter whose work is marked by representations of Swiss battles. A pupil of Jakob Schwegler, he also served as a Swiss Guardsman in Rome from 1848 to 1868.
His artistic career appears to have developed within a military and patriotic context, although the precise details of his production remain to be clarified. The themes of his works, centred on historical events, testify to an interest in national identity and collective memory.