Pia Fries

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Pia Fries
Born6 October 1955
Beromünster, Switzerland
NationalitySwiss
OccupationPainter

Pia Fries (born 6 October 1955) is a Swiss painter. [1]

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Biography

Fries was born in Beromünster, Switzerland and studied sculpture in Lucerne in 1980, and painting under Gerhard Richter at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1986. She lives and works in Düsseldorf and Munich.

Museum collections

Selected exhibitions

Resources

  1. SCHWENDENER, MARTHA (23 February 2007). "Art in Review; Pia Fries". The New York Times . Retrieved 6 June 2011.
  2. "Pia Fries Engravings – Schwarze Blumen A2". mfah.org.
  3. "PIA FRIES | CRG Gallery". Archived from the original on 2007-05-13. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
  4. "Pia Fries | Artists | Christopher Grimes Gallery". www.cgrimes.com. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 6 June 2022.

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