Eduard Gubler

Eduard Gubler (27 March 1891 – 18 May 1971) was a Swiss painter, graphic artist and drawing teacher. The eldest of the Gubler brothers, he studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule and the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, in Munich before returning to Zurich, where he taught drawing until 1953. His work included portraits, landscapes and figure paintings, and was associated with Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit.

Biography Eduard Gubler was born on 27 March 1891 in Zurich. He was the eldest of the Gubler brothers, and the brother of the artists Ernst Gubler and Max Gubler.

From 1906 to 1910, Gubler attended the teacher training college in Küsnacht. The Riedertal in Uri became an important source of subjects for his paintings. He stopped producing printed graphic work after 1922.

Selected works Gubler’s 1917 painting St. Sebastian im Schnee mit Selbstbildnis (Im Riedertal) entered the Aargauer Kunsthaus collection in 2016 as a long-term loan from the Werner Coninx Foundation. It places Saint Sebastian in the snowy landscape of the Riedertal in Uri, a region that provided subjects for Gubler’s paintings.