Ernest Bieler Swiss Painter (1863-1948)

L'eau mystérieuse, 1911

Two Girls

The 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."
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.

(André Biéler: at the crossroads of Canadian painting
By David Karel)

Portrait of Nathalie Biéler, artist's sister, 1885

Although 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

1912

Man from Savièse

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