Hans Fries (c. 1465 – c. 1523)

• Was a Swiss painter before the Reformation.
• Fries was born in Fribourg.

• He 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. 

• Around 1510 he moved to Bern where he lived until his death.

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