Jacques Düblin

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Jacques Düblin (born June 24, 1901 in Oberwil , Basel-Land ; † June 26, 1978 there ) was a Swiss painter .

life and work

Jacques Düblin was the son of the postman Jakob Düblin and Paulina Degen, who ran a grocery store in Oberwil. Since the shop also held the salt monopoly for the whole of Leimental , Düblin was given the village name Salzjoggi .

After completing an apprenticeship as a mechanic, he trained as a machine technician from 1919 to 1922 at the Technikum in Winterthur, now the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur , which he completed with a machine technician diploma. He then worked as a designer at Brown Boveri in Münchenstein .

He received his training as a painter from 1925 to 1928 at the Académie Julian in Paris with Paul Albert Laurens . In 1927 he was able to sell his first picture at the Salon d'Automne . His early role models were Vincent van Gogh , Paul Cézanne and the Impressionists . Düblin developed further in the direction of expressionism . Pen-and-ink drawings made in Paris at that time show the first courageous steps towards the abstract.

In 1928 Düblin returned to Oberwil. There he took part in several constellations in Basel with his pictures, which depicted landscapes of the Leimental as well as everyday family scenes. 1936 began his extensive work as a glass painter . The highlights are the three blue choir windows in the Catholic Church in Oberwil from 1965.

  • Church window in the Reformed Church of St. Peter, donated by Charles Schäublin

  • Church window in the Reformed Church of St. Peter by Jacques Düblin

Even if some of his murals were destroyed in the course of renovations or the demolition of the buildings, his larger works, including the glass windows for churches or on public buildings, can also be found outside of Baselland.

Parallel to his artistic work, Düblin was involved in regional cultural policy. In 1930 he founded the cantonal art credit Baselland together with the artists Walter Eglin , Otto Plattner and Ernst Bolens and in 1944 the Basellandschaftliche Kunstvereinigung, now known as the Baselland Art Association. From 1954 to 1958 he was President of GSMBA Basel and from 1959 to 1964 on the central board of GSMBA.

In 1931 he married Klara Brodmann von Ettingen . They had five children together. One son is the artist Lukas Düblin (* 1933), who lives in Oberwil.

Düblin was well connected in the region and was friends with Jakob Strasser , Coghuf , Ferdinand Gehr , Karl Moor and Walter Schneider. In 1971 he was awarded the Culture Prize of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft .

In 2018, on the occasion of Düblin's 40th anniversary of death, works on paper, gouaches , watercolors and drawings were exhibited at a memorial exhibition in the Kulturforum Sprützehüsli in Oberwil . The publication accompanying the exhibition by curator Urs Berger has been published by Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag in Basel.

Selection of works

Sgraffito, 350 × 520 cm, 1952, Mühlematt school building, Liestal by Jacques Düblin (1901–1978),
Sgraffito, 1952, Mühlematt school building, Liestal
  • 1934: Mural, St. Franziskus , Bircher House, entrance hall, Zurich
  • 1934: Mural, Roth-Schäfer House, Oberwil
  • 1937: Church window, Ettingen Catholic Church
  • 1937: Fourteen sgraffitos, Christ's Passion. Catholic Church Ettingen
  • 1939: Sgraffito, Swiss National Exhibition (ecclesiastical art department), Zurich (destroyed in 2004)
  • 1940: Church window, St. Barbara, St. Elisabeth and St. Verena, St. Hedwig, St. Christophorus, St. Josef, St. Karl Borromäus, Aesch Catholic Church
  • 1952: Sgraffito, sundial , Mühlemattschulhaus, Liestal
  • 1953: Sgraffito, sundial with deer, child and flowers, primary school, Reinach
  • 1954: Sgraffito, handball player , secondary school (gym), Pratteln
  • 1954: Mural, music in the forest , secondary school (auditorium), Gelterkinden
  • 1955: Mural, acrobatics , secondary school (gym), Muttenz
  • 1955: Sgraffito, Vier Jahreszeiten , Wehrlinschulhaus (entrance), Oberwil (destroyed in 2005)
  • 1956: Church window, Reformed parish church, Waldenburg
  • 1957: Mural, pastoral hall, auditorium above the gymnasium, Oberwil
  • 1958: Mural, Romanticism , Realschule (auditorium), Reinach
  • 1958: mural, life picture , municipal administration, Münchenstein

Exhibitions (selection)

Literature selection

  • Handwritten autobiography and documentation about life and work (with daughter Klara Düblin, Oberwil)
  • Hügin Peter: In: BHbl 6, 1961, 24–34 (with catalog raisonné up to 1960).
  • The glass artistic work of Jacques and Lukas Düblin in the church in Oberwil. In: Baselbieter Heimatblätter, No. 2, 2001, pp. 41–96.
  • Urs Berger: Jacques Düblin - works on paper. Friedrich-Reinhardt-Verlag, Basel, 2018, ISBN 3-72452210-X .

Web links

Commons : Jacques Düblin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ altoberwil.ch: Salzjoggi, Däge-Lädeli. Retrieved August 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Bürgergemeinde Oberwil: 2018, memorial exhibition. Retrieved August 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Düblin, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberwil BL , Canton of Basel-Country
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1978
Place of death Oberwil BL , Canton of Basel-Country