Heinrich Bichler

Heinrich Bichler (also Hans Bichler, Heinrich Büchler or Hans Büchler; 1466–1497) was a Swiss painter.

Bichler was born in Bern, and later went on to be the instructor for the painter Hans Fries. In 1472 Bichler painted a portrait of Sulpitius the Pious for the Schloss Thorberg. He also completed a coat of arms for two gates leading to the city of Fribourg in 1478, and a scene portraying the Battle of Morat in 1480.

References

This article was initially translated from the German Wikipedia.
Paul Leonhard whole (1955), "Büchler (Bichler), Heinrich", Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) (in German) 2, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 719–719
Bichler, Heinrich in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.

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