Edmond Bille

 

(Valangin 1878 - Sierre 1959)

 

The prolific Swiss artist and writer Edmond Bille was active not only as a an painter, engraver, and creator of stained glass windows, but also as a writer, journalist and art critic.

 

Edmond Bille studied at the Ecole des beaux-arts de Genève (1894–95) and the Académie Julian in Paris as well as in Neuchatel and Florence. Drawn to Swiss country life, he was one of the creators of an artist's colony in the Bernese Oberland at Brienzwiler (together with Hans Widmer and Jakob Herzog). He eventually settled in Sierre.

 

Bille is the creator of the stained glass windows around the altar of the Cathedral of Lausanne as well as for several churchs and public buildings in Martigny, Sierre and other parts of the Valais region of Switzerland.

 

His daughter S. Corinna Bille became well known writer.