Jacques Gruber

Jacques Gruber studied at lycée Henri-Poincaré and École nationale supérieure d'art de Nancy. Training under Gustave Moreau, Louis-Théodore Devilly and Jules Larcher is recorded. Rose Wild and Jean-Frédéric Wielhorski are recorded as having studied under Jacques Gruber. The recorded working language is French. Employment is recorded with École nationale supérieure d'art de Nancy, Daum and Louis Majorelle. Work by Jacques Gruber is recorded in the collections of Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy, musée de l'École de Nancy, Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and Huis van het boek. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour.

Grüber was born in Sundhouse (Alsace). After starting his training at the Fine Arts School of Nancy, where he would later be a teacher, he followed his learning with Gustave Moreau in Paris thanks to a student grant of Nancy. In 1893, he made some decorations for Daum, some furniture for Majorelle and book covers for René Wiener. In 1897, he founded his own studio where he specialised in glass working and stained glass windows, and in 1901 he was one of the founders of the École de Nancy. In 1914, he moved to Paris where he opened a studio in the 14th arrondissement. He did the stained glass windows of the Villa Bleue in Barcelonnette n and panels in Châlons Cathedral. He died in Paris. His son Francis Gruber was a famous painter and his son Jean-Jacques Grüber, was also a glass artist like his father. His granddaughter Jeannette Weiss Gruber also followed in her grandfathers footsteps.

• Illustration — Glass window in the Musée de l'École de Nancy, France, created around 1904 • Illustration — The Crédit Lyonnais of Nancy houses the largest stained glass window in the École de Nancy style, created in 1901, Nancy, France • Illustration — Stained glass of the reading room of the Carnegie Library of Reims, France • Illustration — Stained glass in the staircase of the Euville town hall, France • Illustration — stained Glass ceiling in the Hotel Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico • Illustration — Stained glass window in the collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, created around 1930 in Nancy, France • Illustration — Saint-Nicolas de Port in Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France

Nasenplastik und sonstige Gesichtsplastik: nebst einem Anhang über Mammaplastik und einige weitere Operationen aus dem Gebiete der äusseren Körperplastik ein Atlas und Lehrbuch / von J. Jacques Gruber is recorded as painter, cabinetmaker, teacher, stained-glass artist and exlibrist.