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Valley of Lauterbrunnen with Jungfrau Print by Ferdinand Hodler

Valley of Lauterbrunnen with Jungfrau

The Dream of the Shepherd Print by Ferdinand Hodler

The Dream of the Shepherd

Landscape of the Swiss Alps Print by Ferdinand Hodler

Landscape of the Swiss Alps

Woodcutter Print by Ferdinand Hodler

Woodcutter

Joyful Woman Print by Ferdinand Hodler

Joyful Woman

Autumn Evening Print by Ferdinand Hodler

Autumn Evening

Girl Arranging Flowers. Girl with Carnation Print by Ferdinand Hodler

Girl Arranging Flowers. Girl with Carnation

The Dents du Midi Print by Ferdinand Hodler

The Dents du Midi

Cows at Lakeshore Print by Ferdinand Hodler

Cows at Lakeshore

Lake Geneva with Jura. Landscape Rhythm of Forms Print by Ferdinand Hodler

Lake Geneva with Jura. Landscape Rhythm of Forms

What the Flowers Say Print by Ferdinand Hodler

What the Flowers Say

Two Rows of Soldiers of the Procession for the Escalade Print by Ferdinand Hodler

Two Rows of Soldiers of the Procession for the Escalade

Stockhorn with Lake Thun Print by Ferdinand Hodler

Stockhorn with Lake Thun

Sailing Boat Print by Ferdinand Hodler

Sailing Boat

Portrait of Clara Pasche-Battie Print by Ferdinand Hodler

Portrait of Clara Pasche-Battie

The Disillusioned One Print by Ferdinand Hodler

The Disillusioned One

The little fisherman Print by Ferdinand Hodler

The little fisherman

Kastanienallee bei Biberist Print by Ferdinand Hodler

Kastanienallee bei Biberist

Emotion Print by Ferdinand Hodler

Emotion

Interior of St Pierre Cathedral Geneva Print by Ferdinand Hodler

Interior of St Pierre Cathedral Geneva

Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau from Beatenberg Print by Ferdinand Hodler

Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau from Beatenberg

Walk along the Border of a Wood Print by Ferdinand Hodler

Walk along the Border of a Wood

Sheep at Sentier Des Saules Print by Ferdinand Hodler

Sheep at Sentier Des Saules

The Mower Print by Ferdinand Hodler

The Mower

The Sacred Hour Print by Ferdinand Hodler

The Sacred Hour

Lake Thun and Brienz with Freiburg Simmental Bull Print by Ferdinand Hodler

Lake Thun and Brienz with Freiburg Simmental Bull

Reading Priest Print by Ferdinand Hodler

Reading Priest

Portrait of Valentine Gode-Darel Print by Ferdinand Hodler

Portrait of Valentine Gode-Darel

Portrait of a Young Lady Print by Ferdinand Hodler

Portrait of a Young Lady

Lake Geneva from Chexbres Print by Ferdinand Hodler

Lake Geneva from Chexbres

The Angry Warrior Print by Ferdinand Hodler

The Angry Warrior

Portrait of Clara Pasche-Battie 2 Print by Ferdinand Hodler

Portrait of Clara Pasche-Battie 2

Lake Champfer Print by Ferdinand Hodler

Lake Champfer

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Landscape of the Swiss Alps

Ferdinand Hodler

Students of Jena

Ferdinand Hodler

The Chosen One

Ferdinand Hodler

Lake Geneva from Chexbres

Ferdinand Hodler

Lake Geneva from Chexbres

Ferdinand Hodler The Day

Ferdinand Hodler The night

Ferdinand Hodler Young freedom fighter

Ferdinand Hodler Women Walking

Ferdinand Hodler Portrait of Berthe Jacques, Wife of the Artist

Ferdinand Hodler Portrait of Louise-Delphine Duchosal

Ferdinand Hodler

Portrait of General Ulrich Wille

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A Troubled Soul

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Aare Gorge

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Evening mist on Thunersee

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Adoration (III)

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Ahasver

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At the foot of Petit Saleve

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At the foot of Petit Saleve

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At the foot of Saleve

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On the banks of the Manzanares

Ferdinand Hodler

Adoration

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View of Fromberghorn from Reichenbach

Ferdinand Hodler

Unemployed

Ferdinand Hodler

At the Foot of Mt. Saleve

Ferdinand Hodler

Rising mist over the Savoy Alps

Ferdinand Hodler

Autumn Evening

Ferdinand Hodler

Tree at Lake Brienz seen from Bodeli

Ferdinand Hodler

Trees in the studio garden

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At the Jonction

Ferdinand Hodler

Mountain stream in Beatenberg

Ferdinand Hodler

Mountain stream in Champery

Ferdinand Hodler

Ferdinand Hodler

Portrait of Berthe Jacques, Wife of the Artist

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Portrait of a young woman

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Portrait of Georges Navazza

Ferdinand Hodler

Portrait of Gertrud Mueller

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Portrait of James Vibert

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Portrait of Laetitia Raviola

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Portrait of Madame de R

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Portrait of Mathias Morhardt

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Portrait of Willy Russ

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View into Infinity

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Caux Landscape with Rising Clouds

Ferdinand Hodler

Charlet in Hilterfingen

Ferdinand Hodler

Cherry Tree in Bloom

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Communication with Infinity

Ferdinand Hodler

The prayer in the cathedral Saint-Pierre in Geneva,

Ferdinand Hodler

The prayer in the cathedral Saint-Pierre in Geneva

Ferdinand Hodler

Dents du Midi in Clouds

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The Aare canal near Thun

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The Angler

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The Lake Geneva from Chexbres

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The Lake Geneva from Lausanne

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The Reaper

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The Monk with clouds

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The Monk

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Montanasee

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The Netmender

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Niesen

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The pastor

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The Orator

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Saleve in autumn

Ferdinand Hodler

The Fall In Silvaplana

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The bull

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The Student (Self Portrait)

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Lake Thun From Lessig

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The river Aare in Solothurn

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Devotion

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Dents Blanches at Champéry in the morning sun

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The Dents du Midi from Chesieres

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The Dents du Midi

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The Gantrisch

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The Golden Meadow

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The Maiden Of The Mist Over The Sea

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The Lady Of The Isenfluh

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The Chestnut Trees

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The Small Plantane

Ferdinand Hodler

The mill of Sous Terre in Geneva

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The Black Lutschina

Ferdinand Hodler

The Street to Evordes

Ferdinand Hodler

Eiger Monch And Jungfrau In Moonlight

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Lake Geneva from the Caux

Ferdinand Hodler

Lake Geneva From Chexbres

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Lake Geneva From Chexbres

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Lake Geneva In Chexbres

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Jungfrau and Silverhorn, as Seen from Murren

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Das Jungfrauenmassiv von Mürren aus

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Kahle Bäume im Tessin

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Ferdinand Hodler

Child by the table

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View of Lake Leman from Chexbres

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Lake Thun

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Landscape

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Landscape at the Jonction at Geneva

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Silence Of The Evening

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Seated Bearded Man

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Sunset on Lake Geneva from the Caux

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Spanish Landscape

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Walking at the forest edge

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Spring

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Sunset on Lake Geneva

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Surprised by the Storm

Ferdinand Hodler

Landscape in Ticino

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The Angry One

Ferdinand Hodler

The Beech Forest

Ferdinand Hodler

The Breithorn

Ferdinand Hodler

The Convalescent

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The Dream

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The Dying Valentine Gode-Darel

Ferdinand Hodler

The Fir Tree

Ferdinand Hodler

The Forest Interior near Reichenbach

Ferdinand Hodler

The Good Samaritan

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The Grand Muveran

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The Lauterbrunner Breithorn I

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The Nut Tree

Ferdinand Hodler

The Reaper

Ferdinand Hodler

The Sick Valentine Gode-Darel

Ferdinand Hodler

Lake Thun with Stockhornkette in Winter

Ferdinand Hodler

Lake Thun, Symmetric reflection

Ferdinand Hodler

Lake Thun

Ferdinand Hodler

Tired of Life

Ferdinand Hodler

The Turner Banquet

Ferdinand Hodler

Valentine Gode Darel with loose hair

Ferdinand Hodler

View into Infinity

Ferdinand Hodler

View of Lake Geneva from Saint-Prex

Ferdinand Hodler

Forest with a mountain stream

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Forest brook near Champery

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Willow tree by the lake

Ferdinand Hodler

Pastures at the Jonction at Geneva

Ferdinand Hodler

Wetterhorn

Ferdinand Hodler

Ferdinand Hodler

Delighted woman

Ferdinand Hodler

The Sensation

Swearing Print by Ferdinand Hodler

Swearing

Drawing for the Beech Grove Print by Ferdinand Hodler

Drawing for the Beech Grove

Study for Views towards Infinity Print by Ferdinand Hodler

Study for Views towards Infinity

Disappointed Print by Ferdinand Hodler

Disappointed

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The Dream of the Shepherd Print by Ferdinand Hodler

The Dream of the Shepherd

Ferdinand Hodler (March 14, 1853 – May 19, 1918) was one of the best-known Swiss painters of the nineteenth century. His early works were portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings in a realistic style. Later, he adopted a personal form of symbolism he called Parallelism.

Early life

Hodler was born in Berne, the eldest of six children. His father, Jean Hodler, made a meager living as a carpenter; his mother, Marguerite (née Neukomm), was from a peasant family.[1] By the time Hodler was eight years old, he had lost his father and two younger brothers to tuberculosis. His mother remarried to a decorative painter, but in 1867 she too died of tuberculosis.[2] Eventually the disease killed all of Hodler's remaining siblings, instilling in the artist a powerful consciousness of mortality.[3]


Career

Before he was ten, Hodler received training in decorative painting from his stepfather and, subsequently was sent to Thun to apprentice with a local painter, Ferdinand Sommer.[4] Hodler's earliest works were conventional landscapes, which he sold in shops and to tourists. In 1871, at the age of 18, he traveled on foot to Geneva to start his career as a painter. He attended science lectures at the Collège de Genève, and in the museum there he copied paintings by Alexandre Calame.[5] In 1873 he became a student of Barthélemy Menn, and investigated Dürer’s writings on proportions.[5]

He made a trip to Basel in 1875, where he studied the paintings of Hans Holbein—especially, Dead Christ in the Tomb, which influenced Hodler's many treatments of the theme of death.[6] He traveled to Madrid in 1878, where he stayed for several months and studied the works of masters such as Titian, Poussin, and Velázquez in the Museo del Prado.[5]

The works of Hodler's early maturity consisted of landscapes, figure compositions, and portraits, treated with a vigorous realism. In 1884, Hodler met Augustine Dupin (1852–1909), who became his companion and model for the next several years. Their son, Hector Hodler—who would found the World Esperanto Association in 1908—was born in 1887.[7]

From 1889 until their divorce in 1891, Hodler was married to Bertha Stucki, who is depicted in his painting, Poetry (1897, Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich).[8] In 1898, Hodler married Berthe Jacques.


Parallelism
Night, 1889-1890, Berne, Kunstmuseum

In the last decade of the nineteenth century his work evolved to combine influences from several genres including symbolism and art nouveau. In 1890 he completed Night, a work that marked Hodler's turn toward symbolist imagery.[5] It depicts several recumbent figures, all of them relaxed in sleep except for an agitated man who is menaced by a figure shrouded in black, which Hodler intended as a symbol of death.[9] Hodler developed a style he called "Parallelism" that emphasized the symmetry and rhythm he believed formed the basis of human society.[5] In paintings such as The Chosen One, groupings of figures are symmetrically arranged in poses suggestive of ritual or dance.

Hodler painted number of large-scale historical paintings, often with patriotic themes.[5] In 1897 he accepted a commission to paint a series of large frescoes for the Weapons Room of the Schweizerisches Landesmuseum in Zurich.[5] The compositions he proposed, including The Battle of Marignan which depicted a battle that the Swiss lost, were controversial for their imagery and style, and Hodler was not permitted to execute the frescoes until 1900.[10]

Hodler's work in his final phase took on an expressionist aspect with strongly coloured and geometrical figures. Landscapes were pared down to essentials, sometimes consisting of a jagged wedge of land between water and sky.
Valentine Godé-Darel on Her Sickbed, 1914, oil on canvas

In 1908, he met Valentine Godé-Darel, who became his mistress. She was diagnosed with cancer in 1913, and the many hours Hodler spent by her bedside resulted in a remarkable series of paintings documenting her decline from the disease.[11] Her death in January 1915 affected Hodler greatly. He occupied himself with work on a series of about 20 introspective self-portraits that date from 1916.

In 1914 he condemned the German atrocities conducted using artillery at Rheims.[11] In retaliation for this, German art museums excluded Hodler's work.
Swiss 50 Franc banknote from 1911 Series Two, Der Holzfäller by Hodler

By late 1917 his declining health led him to thoughts of suicide. He died on May 19, 1918 in Geneva leaving behind a number of unfinished works portraying the city.


Legacy

Many of Hodler's best-known paintings are scenes in which characters are engaged in everyday activities, such as the famous woodcutter (Der Holzfäller, 1910, Musée d'Orsay, Paris). In 1908, the Swiss National Bank commissioned Hodler to create two designs for new paper currency. His designs were controversial: rather than portraits of famous men, Hodler chose to depict a woodcutter (for the 50 Swiss Franc bank note) and a reaper (for the 100 Franc note).[12] Both appeared in the 1911 Series Two of the notes.

According to the art historian Sepp Kern, Hodler "helped revitalize the art of monumental wall painting, and his work is regarded as embodying the Swiss federal identity."[5]
Notes

Hauptman and Hodler 2007, p. 9.
Hauptman and Hodler 2007, pp. 9–10.
Kunstmuseum, Bern: Fedinand Hodler Biography
Hauptman and Hodler 2007, p. 10.
Kern, Oxford Art Online.
Hauptman and Hodler 2007, p. 12.
Hauptman and Hodler 2007, p. 100.
Hauptman and Hodler 2007, pp. 43, 100.
Hodler 1983, p. 135
Hauptman and Hodler 2007, p. 43.
Hauptman and Hodler 2007 p. 36.

Hauptman and Hodler 2007, p. 31.

References

Fehlmann, Marc. Review of Oskar Bätschmann and Paul Müller eds., Ferdinand Hodler. Catalogue Raisonné der Gemälde, Die Landschaften, Zurich 2008: http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/index.php/autumn09/ferdinand-hodler-catalogue-raisonne
Fischer, Matthias (2009). Der junge Hodler. Eine Künstlerkarriere 1872-1897, Wädenswil: Nimbus. ISBN 978-3-907142-30-1.
Hauptman, William, & Hodler, Ferdinand (2007). Hodler. Milan: 5 continents. ISBN 978-88-7439-362-6.
Hodler, Ferdinand, Franz Zelger, Lukas Gloor, Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft., & Seedamm-Kulturzentrum. (1981). Der frühe Hodler: Das Werk 1870-1890. Bern: Benteli. ISBN 3716503657.
Hodler, Ferdinand (1983). Ferdinand Hodler, 1853-1918: Paris, Musée du Petit Palais, 11 mai-24 juillet 1983 : Berlin, 2 mars-24 avril 1983 : Zürich, 19 août-23 octobre 1983. Paris: Association française d'action artistique. ISBN 2865450201.
Hodler, Ferdinand, Jill Lloyd, Ulf Küster, and Oskar Bätschmann (2012). Ferdinand Hodler: view to infinity. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz. ISBN 978-3-7757-3380-9.
Kern, Sepp. "Hodler, Ferdinand". Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web.
Ferdinand Hodler. Catalogue raisonné der Gemälde. Landschaften. Band 1. Hrsg. vom Schweizerischen Institut für Kunstwissenschaft Zürich. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zürich 2008, ISBN 978-3-85881-244-5. (Band 1 enthält Teilband 1 [Kat. 1–300] und Teilband 2 [Kat. 301–626, D1–D52 (fragliche Zuschreibungen), R1–R70 (irrtümliche und falsche Zuschreibungen).]
Ferdinand Hodler. Catalogue raisonné der Gemälde. Bildnisse. Band 2. Hrsg. vom Schweizerischen Institut für Kunstwissenschaft Zürich. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zürich 2012, ISBN 978-3-85881-2554-1. ([Kat. 627–1055, Kat. D53–D68 (fragliche Zuschreibungen), Kat. R71–R105 (irrtümliche und falsche Zuschreibungen).]

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