André Charles Biéler

André Charles Biéler (1896-1989) RCA, OSA

André Charles Biéler was born in Switzerland in 1896 and immigrated to Canada in 1908. Biéler became known for his genre pictures of rural Quebec. Biéler was the first president of the Federation of Canadian Artists (1942-1944) and helped establish the Canada Council and Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario, where he died in 1989.