Ernest bieler biography

Born in 1863 in Rolle, Ernest Biéler left for Paris at the age of seventeen to study in the city’s art schools. He works under the influence of impressionism at first and paints an initial masterpiece that causes quite a stir at the 1889 World’s Fair (Pendant la messe à Saint-Germain en Savièse – During the Mass in Saint-Gemain in Savièse, 1886), the picture’s subject being inspired by a stay in the Canton of Valais.

Illustrating the novels of Emile Zola, Alphonse Daudet and Victor Hugo – over and above the few portrait commissions that come in – makes it possible for him to live in the French capital.

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In 1900 Biéler returns to Switzerland, settles in Valais and helps to develop the School of Savièse. He gradually abandons oil painting for tempera, which allows him to cultivate a more graphic style, and turns towards Art Nouveau.

A painter and illustrator, he also makes a name for himself working in stained glass and mosaic. In 1917 he sets up