Max Gubler

Max Gubler ( born May 26, 1898 in Zurich, † July 29, 1973 ) was a Swiss painter.

Max Gubler was born the son of a decorative painter. His two older brothers Eduard Gubler (1891-1971) and Ernst Gubler (1895-1958) were also artists. Gubler made ​​from 1914 to 1918 trained as a primary school teacher in the seminary Küsnacht in Canton Zurich, 1920, he moved to Berlin. From 1923 to 1927 he stayed mostly on the island of Lipari, where many photos were taken. From 1930 to 1937 he lived in Paris before he returned to Zurich, where he then worked consistently.

After experimenting in various contemporary styles Gubler developed on Lipari for the first time his own style, his luminous landscapes can be assigned to Impressionism. Later he turned more and more abstract painting, but painted long with bold colors. 1956 originated with colored chalk illustrations to Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. It was only in his late work outweighed dark colors.

Gubler showed his paintings in museums, in 1963 an exhibition in Munich Lenbachhaus him was dedicated in 1969 were to see his pictures at the Kunstmuseum Bern. After his death, he dedicated the Kunsthaus Zurich in 1975 a retrospective.