Background
Max Gubler was born in Zürich on May 26, 1898. He was the son of a painter. His two older brothers Eduard and Ernst were also artists.
Max Gubler was born in Zürich on May 26, 1898. He was the son of a painter. His two older brothers Eduard and Ernst were also artists.
He trained as a primary school teacher between 1914 and 1918 before moving to Berlin in 1920.
From 1923-27 he lived mostly on the island of Lipari, where he painted many pictures.
From 1930 to 1937 he lived in Paris, before returning to Zürich. He experimented with various contemporary styles, until developing his own personal vivid style of landscape painting on Lipari. Later he turned to abstraction, but continued to use bright colours.
In 1956 he did a series of pastel illustrations for Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. In his late works, darker colours predominate.
After his death a retrospective was held at the Kunsthaus Zurich in 1975.
Blick auf Kloster Fahr durch Bäume
Rain Landscape
Stehender Männerakt, Unterengstringen
Plate with Fruits and Shellfish
City street in the night
Landscape with Blooming Trees
Portrait Maria Gubler
Storm
Landschaft mit Kloster Fahr, Unterengstringen
Bathers
Venice
The Man and the Sea
Night-time landscape near Unterengstringen
Rainy landscape with clouds
Still life with thistle in blue vase, salt pot, basket of apples and mask
Schiff bei Palestrina
Lipari, Portinenti mit Windmühlenturm
Eglise Montrouge, Paris
Night landscape with the Gas Plant Schlieren
Summer Landscape with Schlieren Gas Works
Self-Portrait
Selbstbildnis, Ganzfigur
Schlafende Katze
Tiefer Mond
Self-Portrait