Artist
Hans Fries
Swiss, 1465–1520
Hans Fries was a Swiss Northern Renaissance artist. 7 works are cataloged here, principally at Bavarian State Painting Collections. Hans Fries was born in Fribourg.
Hans Fries (c. 1465 – c. 1523) 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 Bern where he lived until his death.
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