Robert Stöcklin was a Swiss commercial artist .
After an apprenticeship as a printer and the following years of traveling, Robert Stöcklin worked as a typesetter in various Basel companies.
Stöcklin moved to Leipzig, where he joined a large printing company at the time of the First World War and, in addition to this activity, trained as a commercial artist at the Royal Academy for the Graphic Arts and Book Industry there. After the end of the war he returned to Basel, where he was the technical director of a printing company and worked for the Allgemeine Plakatgesellschaft before finally opening his own graphics studio.

From 1920 on, Stöcklin designed a number of written posters.
Robert Stöcklin died of severe diphtheria at the age of 42. He is one of the pioneers of artistic written posters in Switzerland.