Andre bieler biography
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Biography of André BIéLER
André Biéler by Sidney Carter
BIOGRAPHY
André Biéler was born in Lausanne in 1896. In 1898, the family settled in Paris before moving to Montreal at the end of the following decade. From 1913, André began training as a draughtsman at the Institut technique de Montréal. Two years later he enlisted in the Canadian army and soon after left for Europe. As a result of injuries sustained during a mustard gas attack, from which he would suffer permanent after-effects, he was assigned to the army’s topographical service. It was here that he made the acquaintance of several artists working within this field – including Maurice Cullen and Fred Varley – who appear to have nourished his love of painting.
On his return to the North American continent, Biéler began training as an artist, which led him to Florida (Stetson University), to Woodstock, New York (Art’s Students&rsq
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André Biéler RCA, OSA
Canadian Listed Artist: 1896-1989
Woodcut: combined with Pochoir
Signed: by the Artist in pencil
Titled: "St. Francis L'île d'Orleans"
Size: h. 7 1/6 in. by w. 6 in.
Condition: Clean, bright and archivally framed and matted
It should be noted: This 1930's print is from the original series of this woodcut-pochoir and not the subsequent reprint from the same woodcut blocks done by André in the 1970's. He also produced a hand-pulled serigraph of this scene on a slightly larger format around the same time as the second edition of this woodcut. The original series of this hand-pulled pochoir-woodcut maintains a higher value level than the second edition printed in the 1970's and should not be confused as being in the same value catagory.
André was born in Switzerland and came to Montreal in 1908. He studied art in Paris in the 1920’s for several years as well as at the Art Students’ League in New York. He organ
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André Bieler: An artist's life and times - Hardcover
ANDRE BIELER: AN ARTIST'S LIFE AND TIMES.
Smith, Frances K. Introduction bygd Michael Bell. (Andre Bieler.)
Published bygd Merritt, Toronto, 1980
ISBN 10: 092088606X / ISBN 13: 9780920886069
Used / Hardcover First Edition
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Hard Cover. Condition: nära Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Andre Bieler. (illustrator). First Edition. 176 pp, 4to (11 3/4" H). Profusely illustrated with colour and b&w reproductions, b&w photographs. "This study of the life and work of Andre Bieler, one of Canada's most important living artists, spans eighty-three years of his life and art in Europe, the United States and Canada. It studies him against the flowering of twentieth-century Canadian art, a fascinating history in itself. (S)tarts with (his) birth in Switzerland in 1896, tracing his europeisk fami