Coghuf

Weavers creating the University of St. Gallen Aula tapestry after a design by Coghuf

Ernst Stocker (28 October 1905 – 13 February 1976), better known as Coghuf, was a Swiss painter associated with Gruppe Rot-Blau. After training as an ornamental ironworker and spending time in Paris, he turned to painting around 1927. His work included paintings, drawings, murals, stained-glass windows and tapestries, with public commissions in Switzerland and France.

Biography Coghuf was born Ernst Stocker on 28 October 1905 in Basel. He was the brother of the painter . From 1920 to 1924, he trained as an ornamental ironworker.

Like his older brother, Stocker went to Paris, where he lived from 1925 to 1927 and earned his living in the ironworking trade. There he became acquainted with Jacques Lipchitz and studied with Willi Baumeister.

Other public works from the late 1960s and early 1970s included the artistic design of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Altstätten, the mural Der Winter for the Progymnasium in Binningen, a stained-glass window for the Mettenberg chapel, and a stained-glass window for the church of Saint-François d’Assise in Mulhouse.