Ernest Bieler

Ernest Biéler ( born July 31, 1863 in role, † June 25, 1948 in Lausanne) was a Swiss painter and illustrator. He was influenced by Impressionism and later turned to the youth style.

Biography

After attending high school in Lausanne pulled Biéler 1880 on the advice of François Bocion who had discovered his artistic talent, to relatives in Paris. There he studied at the Académie Julian and at the Académie Suisse. His living he earned, among other things with the illustration of novels by Émile Zola, Alphonse Daudet and Victor Hugo. However, his main interest was in the landscapes and people of the canton of Valais. The public 's attention through an exhibition at the World Expo 1889 on him.

1889 Biéler took up residence in Savièse above Sion. In other resident artists, he formed the so-called School of Savièse which portrayed in a deliberately decorative and linear style Pennine landscape and its inhabitants. At the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 he was awarded a silver medal and received in the same year in the Legion of Honor. In 1903 he co-founded the Société des traditions valaisannes who campaigned for the preservation of cultural traditions in the Valais.

Biéler received numerous public commissions for frescoes, stained glass and mosaics, including the Federal Palace in Bern, at the Musée Jenisch in Vevey, in the church of Saint -François in Lausanne, in the Town Hall of Le Locle and the hall of the Grand Council of Valais in Sion. From 1917 he ran in art and Viticulture in Rivaz in the Lavaux region. In the years 1926 and 1927 he was a member of the Swiss Federal Art Commission.