Hiram Brülhart

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Ernest Hiram Brülhart (1878 in Fribourg – 1949 in Fribourg), was a Swiss painter and illustrator .

Biography[]

Born in Fribourg in 1873, Ernest Hiram Brülhart first became an engineer before he followed Ferdinand Hodler's classes at the Musée industriel in Fribourg encouraged by the painter . He then went to Paris where he attended first the Académie Julian circa 1900, and then the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. A very frequent traveller, he stayed in Saint-Tropez, visited Bucharest where he was invited by his friend and mecene the ambassador , then in Venice, before he finally came back to Fribourg. He was then a teacher at the Ecole des arts et métiers, where he had as a student.

Works in public institutions[]

• Portrait du Ministre René de Weck, vers 1934. Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Fribourg
• Romont de l'ouest, 1930-1949. Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Fribourg

References[]

• Hodler und Freiburg. Die Mission des Künstlers. Hodler et Fribourg. La Mission de l'artiste, Ausstellung-Katalog, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Fribourg, 1981
• La tête des nôtres : portraits à Fribourg, 1850-2000, exhibition catalogue, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Fribourg, Fribourg, 2004
• Un carrefour artistique, Philippe Clerc, in: La Gruyère dans le miroir de son patrimoine, Une région en représentation, t.5, Editions Alphil, 2011, p. 14
• SCHUSTER CORDONE, Caroline, Hiram Brülhart, in: Fribourg 1700, no.281, janvier 2012, p. 13

External links[]

• "Hiram Brülhart". SIKART Lexicon on art in Switzerland.

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