Word: gubler
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...produced a few passionate painters, and possibly two with an important place in art history. The first was the sophisticated fantasist Paul Klee, who died in 1946. His art had all the delicacy and sparkle of a Swiss watch. The second great Swiss painter may well be Max Gubler, 54, a sober, square-faced man with straggly grey hair and intense grey eyes. His art is sunny and nourishing as Swiss cheese. Last week the Zurich Art Museum was staging a retrospective show of 136 Gubler canvases dating all the way back...
...work, the same effect that Renoir always achieved. Hopper's 20 contributions are comparatively dour, and less deft, but their directness and monumentality may help earn him a place in history next to the two great masters of American painting, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. Max Gubler's 42 paintings turn the Swiss pavilion into a sunlit peak, and assure the reputation of a hitherto little-known artist. "Talent and ideas," says Gubler, "are nothing. The job is to paint what you have seen and what you feel in the only way those things can be expressed." That...