A rising star: Swiss artist Ernest Bieler: the painter is already famed for his early 20th-century depictions of Valais life. Now, with a major exhibit and publication on the way--and his art market prices edging into seven figures--he is heading for far greater renown.

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A rising star: Swiss artist Ernest Bieler: the painter is already famed for his early 20th-century depictions of Valais life. Now, with a major exhibit and publication on the way--and his art market prices edging into seven figures--he is heading for far greater renown.

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Ernest Bieler was born on July 31, 1863 in Rolle, Canton Vaud. His father Samuel, a French-trained veterinarian, had been orphaned as a child. Nathalie de Butzow, Ernest Bieler's mother, was a music- and art-loving polyglot of Finnish-Polish parentage. Her Finnish father worked as a diplomat, providing an international and cosmopolitan lifestyle for his family, until his unexpected death caused the family to fall on hard times.

Samuel and Nathalie Bieler's firstborn child, Charles, came along in 1860. He would be followed by a further nine children, two of whom died in childhood. After struggling to support a wife and growing brood on his earnings as a veterin...

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