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 and art educator.

Life

The son of a painter - his father restored the Rieder Taler hermitage in Uri - and brother of the sculptor and painter Ernst Gubler as well as the painter Max Gubler (1898-1973), in 1905 came with his father for the first time in Riedertal and spent from that point on regularly the Holiday in this remote valley, which was one of his favorite landscape motifs.

After the teacher training college in Küsnacht Gubler attended from 1913 to 1916, the Arts and Crafts School, after which the etching class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 1918 he returned to Zurich where he found employment as an art teacher at the secondary school, where he remained active until his retirement.

In 1918, he rented a workspace in the studio, " Latvians ", where he met other famous artists of that time. In April 1920, he held in Lugano on and in October 1921 again in Ticino, in order to recover from a severe flu. In 1925, he married the 14 years younger than Maria view that he had met on a trip through southern Germany in 1922, who bore him two daughters: Maria ( 1930) and Verena ( 1943). In 1932, the now married artist spent the summer holidays with his family in the house, " Front Talberg " in Riedertal. Together with his father he ornamented the Haldi Chapel on the Shatt villages mountains.

Gubler was retired in 1953 after a 6-month stay in hospital because of a broken leg early and devoted himself to painting, which he never more was staying in Riedertal.

Work

Eduard Gubler is one of the early and expressive representatives of Expressionism, but turned in 1917 to the New Objectivity.

His first painting, titled The Blind, was born in 1916.