Ilse Weber (painter)

Ilse Weber, also Ilse Weber-Zubler, née Zubler (born May 30, 1908 in Baden AG ; † March 6, 1984 in Washington, DC ) was a Swiss painter . She is seen as an important protagonist of Swiss regionalism .

life and work

Ilse Zubler was born in Baden as the middle of three children of electrical engineer Rudolf Zubler and teacher Frieda Zubler-Kieser. After attending the secondary school for daughters in Zurich and the piano class at the conservatory , she attended painting lessons in Zurich with Walter Müller at the age of 22. From 1936 to 1937 she continued her studies with Othon Friesz in Paris . In Rome in 1938 she met her husband, Hubert Weber from Geneva , with whom she had a daughter in 1941. After the death of her husband in 1944, she worked as a professional painter. In 1945 she received the Swiss Confederation's Encouragement Prize, in 1947 the Federal Art Scholarship and a federal scholarship for a study visit to Florence. In Wettingen she built a studio house in which she worked from 1949 to 1974. She then worked in a large factory room at the Wettingen spinning mill . In parallel to her drawing, she took on official orders and made mosaics , wall paintings and sgraffiti for public buildings. In 1982 Weber and her daughter's family moved to Washington, DC The self-contained group of works “Americana” was created, which represents a high point in her work.

Exhibitions

• 1937: October 16 to 24, Kursaal Baden
• 1961: April 14th to May 2nd, Galerie Rauch, Baden
• 1967: March 2 to April 2, Ilse Weber, Roland Guignard; Aargauer Kunsthaus , Aarau
• 1972: March 3 to April 15, Galerie Raeber, Lucerne
• 1975: September 9 to October 17, Galerie Raeber, Lucerne
• 1993: June 11th to July 4th, Gluri-Suter-Huus , Wettingen
• 1999: May 28th to July 3rd, Geneva
• 2018: August 29 to October 13, Galerie Museum Baviera, Zurich

Works

• Like a landscape. Kunsthaus Zurich 1992.
• Exhibition catalog. Galerie Raeber, Lucerne 1972.
• with Roland Guignard: exhibition catalog. Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau 1967.

literature

• Max Muntwyler: The painter Ilse Weber-Zubler . In: Baden New Years Papers. Wettingen 1954.
• Marie-Louise Lienhard: Art argovien d'aujourd'hui. Frick 1976.
• Ueli Däster: Reinventing the world single-handedly - on the death of the painter Ilse Weber (1908–1984) . In: Baden New Years Papers. 1985.

Web links

• Marie-Louise Lienhard: Weber, Ilse. In: Sikart (status: 2018), accessed on January 9, 2019.
• Ilse Weber. Apple, 1964. Aargauer Kunsthaus , accessed on January 9, 2019
• Weber-Zubler, Ilse (1908-1984). Art width, accessed on January 9, 2019
• Ilse Weber. Kunstmuseum Luzern , accessed on January 9, 2019
• Ilse Weber. Painter. Art Dock Zurich: Frauenpower 2016 , accessed on January 9, 2019 (PDF; 9.03 MB)