L'eau mystérieuse, 1911
Two GirlsThe important Swiss painter Ernest Biéler was a multi-talented artist.
At the turn of the century, Ernest Biéler was practising two styles of painting at once and, consequently, pursuing virtually two careers: one closer to his heart, tending toward Realism, and the other based on status-seeking within the Symbolist movement. Ernest Biéler's Realism was based on love for his country... In the 1890s, Modernism meant rejecting Realism in favour of a more spiritual art which, at its most colourful and decorative, became Art Nouveau. Ernest Biéler resisted Internationalism and Symbolism, which gradually disappeared from his painting. But he remained ambivalent about them for years. Torn between the two painting styles ... he ended up practising both. His contemporaries .. asked him whether he was an idealist or a realist. "An artist can aspire to be both," Ernest Biéler replied. "One does not exclude the other. ..National sentiment is not irrelevant to art."(André Biéler: at the crossroads of Canadian painting
It is worth noting that Ernest Biéler's idealism was profoundly influenced by what he called "decoration", the term used by Mauris Denis in 1890 in his Theories.
By David Karel)
Portrait of Nathalie Biéler, artist's sister, 1885Although the artist traveled widely, he remained bound to the village of Savièse in the canton of Valais and often portrayed scenes from peasant life with a remarkable level of detail. Bieler also produced stained-glass windows for churches and Federal Building in Berne, and created the ceiling of the Municipal Theatre in Berne.
At the Church of Saint-Germain, 1886
The Third Anniversary of Giovanni Pascoli
Portrait des demoiselles Yvonne et Noëlle Guiguer de Prangins, 1886
Confidence à l'abri du bois, 1898, tempera
Lady with Greyhound
Lady in White, 1898
Les Coquelicots, 1890
Portrait d'Hélène du Mandrot, 1904
L'Eté et les moissons, 1918 (summer and harvest)
L'Automne et le vin, 1917 (autumn and wine)
Les Bacchantes, 1905
Sunflower, 1910
Portrait of Edouard Rod, 1909
Two Girls in Interior, 1892
The Boy with a Whip 1882
Young Girl with Carnation, 1908
Young Girl in Hat 1918
The Caprices. Shepherds and Goats 1898
The Sheep in Montorge 1913
Game of Graces 1908
Portrait of a Lady in Interior 1908, Tempera
La Ramasseuse de feuilles mortes 1909
Lady in Blue
The Weaver
1906
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Retour du baptême 1907
Three Young Girls
Girls Going to Mass 1906
Beautiful Sunday in Savièze 1907
Man from Savièse 1909
1915
Portrait of Old Man
1910
Portrait of Peasant from Valais 1910
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ReplyDeleteI am looking for someone who can tell me more about a pair of large oil on canvas paintings by Ernest Bieler. They are signed upper right, by "E. Bieler, 1908" and are obviously commissioned works. One is a 3/4 painting of a prominent middle-aged man glasses and the other is a 3/4 painting of an elegant middle-aged woman in a lacey dress, with a string of pearls in her hair. The very ornate matched gilt gesso frames were made in Berlin. The painting of the gentleman had three knife wounds to the lower part of the painting, which were repaired poorly. Anything Bieler historians could tell me about these works- and who may have brought them to the US- would be much appreciated.
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