Hans Fries
Visual Artist
1465 – 1523
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Who was Hans Fries?
Hans Fries was a Swiss painter before the Reformation.
Fries was born in Fribourg, the son of a baker, and studied with the Bernese painter Heinrich Bichler. After a stay in Basel in the year 1487/88, he returned to his hometown. Here he held the official post of city painter in the first decade of the 16th Century and was in addition a councilman. During this time he designed and painted many altars. Around 1510 he moved to Berne where he lived until his death.
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- Born
- 1465
Fribourg - Also known as
- Фрис, Ханс
- Nationality
- Switzerland
- Died
- 1523
Bern
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on July 23, 2013
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