Nationality Swiss Name Hiram Brulhart | Known for Painting | |
Born 14 October 1878 ( 1878-10-14 ) Fribourg, Switzerland Died 22 March 1949(1949-03-22) (aged 70)
Fribourg, Switzerland | ||
Ernest Hiram Brulhart (1878 in Fribourg – 1949 in Fribourg), was a Swiss painter and illustrator .
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Born in Fribourg in 1873, Ernest Hiram Brulhart first became an engineer before he followed Ferdinand Hodler's classes at the Musee industriel in Fribourg encouraged by the painter Joseph Reichlen. He then went to Paris where he attended first the Academie Julian circa 1900, and then the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere. A very frequent traveller, he stayed in Saint-Tropez, visited Bucarest where he was invited by his friend and mecene the ambassador Rene de Weck, then in Venice, before he finally came back to Fribourg. He was then a teacher at the Ecole des arts et metiers, where he had Gaston Thevoz as a student.
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