André Charles Biéler CM RCA (8 October 1896 – 1 December 1989)[1] was a Swiss-born Canadian painter and teacher.

He was the first president of the Federation of Canadian Artists (1942–1944), and was instrumental in the foundation of the Canada Council and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario.

[1] Biéler, moved to Paris for twelve years with his parents and brothers, Jean, Étienne, and Jacques, before the whole family immigrated to Canada in 1908.

[1] In 1919 he returned to Canada, then went to Florida to recuperate, where Harry Davis Fluhart (1861–1938) gave him art lessons.

[1] He also spent some time in Paris, France, and studied at the Académie Ranson with Maurice Denis (1870–1943) and Paul Sérusier (1864–1927).

[3] In 1930 Biéler set up a studio in Montreal, earning a living by undertaking commercial commissions and by teaching.

Other members were Albert Edward Cloutier, Adrien Hébert, the art critic Jean Chauvin and the editor Carrier.

He promoted interior decoration using the homespun textiles made by spinners and weavers from the lower St. Lawrence region.

[1] Biéler's style was closer to that of contemporary French painters, in particular to the "School of Paris," then to Canadian movements.

He made lively genre pictures of life in rural Quebec, showing figures working in groups or gathering around churches, in harmony with the landscape.

[3] He has said, Over and over again I have sketched and painted people coming out of church after high mass, the characteristic pause before taking the long journey to the homestead.

Filled with colour - pinks, greens, golds - and buoyant in subject matter, his oil paintings point to the fulfillment and pleasure to be found both in work and play.

[1] Biéler's major works include:[1] Biéler held more than twenty five solo exhibitions in locations that included Geneva, Montreal, Kingston, Quebec City, Edmonton, Calgary, Banff, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Toronto, and San Miguel de Allende in Mexico.

Major retrospective exhibitions were held at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston in 1963, showing 115 works, and in 1970.