Eduard Gubler

Eduard Gubler (born March 27, 1891 in Zurich ; † May 18, 1971 ) was a Swiss painter and graphic artist of Expressionism and New Objectivity, as well as an art teacher .

Gubler, left, on a school trip during his time at the teachers' seminar in Küsnacht. On the right his later friend Karl Stamm

Life

The eldest son of a painter - his father restored the Riedertal pilgrimage chapel in Uri - and brother of the sculptor and painter Ernst Gubler (1895–1958) and the painter Max Gubler (1898–1973) came to Riedertal for the first time with his father in 1905 and spent time there At this point, he regularly goes on vacation in this remote valley, which has become one of his favorite landscape motifs.

After the teachers' seminar in Küsnacht, Gubler attended the arts and crafts school from 1913 to 1916, then the etching class with Peter Halm at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . In 1918 he returned to Zurich and found employment as a drawing teacher at the secondary school, where he remained active until his retirement.

In 1918 he rented a work space in the Letten studio , where he met other renowned artists of the time. In April 1920 he stayed in Lugano and in October 1921 again in Ticino to recover from a severe flu. In 1925 he married Maria Blick, 14 years his junior, whom he met on a trip through southern Germany in 1922 and who gave him two daughters: Maria (1930) and Verena (1943). From 1932 onwards, the artist, now married, spent the summer holidays with his family in the "Vorderer Talberg" house in Riedertal. He and his father decorate the Haldi Chapel on the Schattdorf Mountains. From 1928 Gubler lived and worked all his life in a studio apartment on the top floor of the then newly built Volkshaus on Helvetiaplatz in Zurich. After a six-month stay in hospital, he retired early in 1953 because of a broken leg and from then on devoted himself exclusively to painting.

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Eduard Gubler is one of the early and expressive exponents of Expressionism, but turned to New Objectivity as early as 1917. His first painting, titled The Blind , was created in 1916.

literature

• Walter Muschg : Eduard Gubler In : Neue Schweizer Rundschau , Issue 2, 1926, pp. 211–212
• Walter Kern: Eduard Gubler In: Architektur und Kunst , Vol. 15, 1928, pp. 122–127
• Doris Fässler : Eduard Gubler 1891-1971. Prints and drawings. Diopter Verlag, Lucerne 1993, ISBN 3-905198-11-8 .
• Doris Fässler: Eduard Gubler 1891-1971. Paintings 1913–1925. Diopter Verlag, Lucerne 1999, ISBN 3-905425-06-8 .
• S. Rüttimann: Gubler, Eduard . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 64, Saur, Munich a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23031-8 , pp. 267-269.

Web links

• Doris Fässler: Gubler, Eduard. In: Sikart
• Literature by and about Eduard Gubler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Eduard, Ernst and Max Gubler Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://gublerstiftung.ch/6-2 , accessed on August 20, 2019.
2. ↑ Kapellgemeinde Haldi: Building history of the Haldi chapel. Retrieved August 2, 2019 . 
3. ^ Academy of Fine Arts, Munich: Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, in the register book. Retrieved August 2, 2019 .