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Edmond Bille BIOGRAPHY
1878 Valangin, Switzerland - 1959 Siders, Switzerland. Known for: Stained glass design for churches, figure and genre painting, engraving.
Edmond Bille (1878 in Valangin – 1959 in Sierre) was a Swiss artist. He engaged in intense and varied activity as painter, engraver, stained glass artist, journalist, writer, and politician. He is... Read full biography
Edmond Bille (1878 in Valangin – 1959 in Sierre) was a Swiss artist. He engaged in intense and varied activity as painter, engraver, stained glass artist, journalist, writer, and politician. He is the creator of the stained glass windows around the altar of the Cathedral of Lausanne, capital of the... Read full biography
Edmond Bille (1878 in Valangin – 1959 in Sierre) was a Swiss artist. He engaged in intense and varied activity as painter, engraver, stained glass artist, journalist, writer, and politician. He is the creator of the stained glass windows around the altar of the Cathedral of Lausanne, capital of the Swiss canton of Vaud. He studied at the École des beaux-arts de Genève from 1894 to 1895, and the Académie Julian in Paris as well as in Neuchâtel and Florence. Bille, Hans Widmer and Jakob Herzog... Read full biography
Edmond Bille (1878 in Valangin – 1959 in Sierre) was a Swiss artist. He engaged in intense and varied activity as painter, engraver, stained glass artist, journalist, writer, and politician. He is the creator of the stained glass windows around the altar of the Cathedral of Lausanne, capital of the Swiss canton of Vaud. He studied at the École des beaux-arts de Genève from 1894 to 1895, and the Académie Julian in Paris as well as in Neuchâtel and Florence. Bille, Hans Widmer and Jakob Herzog created the artist colony in the Bernese Oberland at Brienzwiler. He eventually settle in Sierre. Other stained glass projects can be seen in churches and public buildings in Martigny, Sierre, and other parts of the Valais region of Switzerland. His... Read full biography
Edmond Bille (1878 in Valangin – 1959 in Sierre) was a Swiss artist. He engaged in intense and varied activity as painter, engraver, stained glass artist, journalist, writer, and politician. He is the creator of the stained glass windows around the altar of the Cathedral of Lausanne, capital of the Swiss canton of Vaud. He studied at the École des beaux-arts de Genève from 1894 to 1895, and the Académie Julian in Paris as well as in Neuchâtel and Florence. Bille, Hans Widmer and Jakob Herzog created the artist colony in the Bernese Oberland at Brienzwiler. He eventually settle in Sierre. Other stained glass projects can be seen in churches and public buildings in Martigny, Sierre, and other parts of the Valais region of Switzerland. His daughter S. Corinna Bille became a well-known writer. Source:"Edmond Bille," Wikipedia, Jun. 2018... Read full biography
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Edmond Bille (1878 in Valangin – 1959 in Sierre) was a Swiss artist. He engaged in intense and varied activity as painter, engraver, stained glass artist, journalist, writer, and politician.
He is the creator of the stained glass windows around the altar of the Cathedral of Lausanne, capital of the Swiss canton of Vaud. He studied at the École des beaux-arts de Genève from 1894 to 1895, and the Académie Julian in Paris as well as in Neuchâtel and Florence.
Bille, Hans Widmer and Jakob Herzog created the artist colony in the Bernese Oberland at Brienzwiler. He eventually settle in Sierre.
Other stained glass projects can be seen in churches and public buildings in Martigny, Sierre, and other parts of the Valais region of Switzerland.
His daughter S. Corinna Bille became a well-known writer.
Source:"Edmond Bille," Wikipedia, Jun. 2018Biography from Dobiaschofsky Auktionen
Edmond Bille first studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva, then at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs and at the Académie Julian in Paris, where he shared an apartment with Charles L'Eplattenier.
At the end of the century, he founded with Hans Widmer and Jakob Herzog a colony of artists in Brienzwiler, where he stayed twice for several months.
In 1904 he married, settled in Sierre with his wife and built a large studio house, which was soon referred to by the people as "Château du peintre Bille".