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Bruno Baeriswyl is a painter born in Fribourg in Switzerland.

Biography
Eleventh child of a large family of twelve kids, he spent his childhood in the old town of Fribourg.

After primary school, he apprenticed in a cardboard factory and collaborated from 1960 to 1970 as freelance model maker with architectural firms from Fribourg.

At the same time, this self-taught artist devoted himself to artistic creation and more specifically to painting. As a child, he was fascinated by the work of the self-taught painter Ernest Riesemey, the district's milkman. From then on, he devoted himself definitively to art.

From 1974 to 1981 he directed with Michel Ritter Galerie RB in Fribourg, which became a showcase of contemporary creation.

He received three federal scholarships (1962, 1963, 1969), the Lélo Fiaux Foundation Prize (1968) and a grant from the Canadian Government (1971) for an extended stay in that country. In 1979, the Deutschfreiburgische Arbeitsgemeinschaft awarded him the Fine Arts Prize.

The works of Bruno Baeriswyl can be found in many museums and collections:


 * Museum of Art and History of Freiburg,
 * Kunstsammlung der Stadt of Thun,
 * Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts of Lausanne,
 * Collection of the Swiss Confederation.