Eduard Zetsche was an Austrian landscape and vedute painter from the Düsseldorf School. He was also active as a writer and illustrator of travelogues.

In addition to his job as a bank clerk, Zetsche took painting lessons from Robert Russ and Emil Jakob Schindler. After his bank had fired him as a result of the crash of 1873, he began studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1874 under Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels. Dissatisfied with his lessons, he switched to the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1878, where he was a student of Eugen Dücker until 1880.

His landscape painting had overcome late Romanticism and was shaped by naturalism. He also taught at the Düsseldorf Academy. When he returned to Vienna, he was particularly successful with watercolors, as well as ink and pen and ink drawings, which took up motifs from the area around Vienna and earned him the reputation of a “Bach and castle painter”. In addition, he painted views from the areas around Stift Heiligenkreuz and on the Leitha as well as views from the Waldviertel and the Wachau, Tyrol, Germany and Italy. Soon he started to write essays and travelogues, to illustrate them and to publish them in book form. Later he also created flower pictures.