page_title: André Charles Biéler
hierarchical_section_title: André Charles Biéler
caption_attribution_description: English: André Charles Biéler (8 September 1896 – 1 December 1989) was a Swiss-born Canadian painter and teacher. Photograph of Biéler in his late forties.
context_page_description: André Charles Biéler RCA was a Swiss-born Canadian painter and teacher. His work was modernist, at first with strong emphasis on line, later with more interest in light and colour. He is known for his genre pictures of life in rural Quebec. He was the first president of the Federation of Canadian Artists, and was instrumental in the foundation of the Canada Council and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario.
context_section_description: André Charles Biéler RCA (8 October 1896 – 1 December 1989) was a Swiss-born Canadian painter and teacher. His work was modernist, at first with strong emphasis on line, later with more interest in light and colour. He is known for his genre pictures of life in rural Quebec. He was the first president of the Federation of Canadian Artists (1942–1944), and was instrumental in the foundation of the Canada Council and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario.
caption: Biéler in his late forties
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