Albert Jacques Marc Muret
Albert Muret was born in Morges in 1874. He studied at the Ecole des Arts Industriels in Geneva and then in Paris from 1894 to 1899. In 1902 he moved to Lens in the Valais. His friends the painter René Auberjonois and the writer Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz regularly spent time with him there, and he was even visited by the composer Igor Stravinsky. Thanks to the work of these artists, the town of Lens became famous. For Muret, the activities connected to rural life were an inexhaustible source of inspiration. Many of his paintings show scenes with people working in the fields.
In 1917 Muret went back to live near lake Geneva and gave up painting in the mid-1920s. He died in Pully in 1955.