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| Artist's Name: | Ferdinand Hodler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preferred medium: | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| birth year: | 1853 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality: | CH | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| City: | Geneva | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ferdinand Hodler - Profile |
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| Ferdinand Hodler was born in 1853 in Berne and settled in Geneva in 1872, where he lived for the rest of his life. His works, such as Alpine landscapes of mountains and lakes, portraits and historical pictures made on commission, established him as one of the key figures of his country's art, who found some loyal supporters early on in his career as a painter. To this day the predominant part of his extensive oeuvre is preserved in prominent museums and important private collections in Switzerland. In the early part of his career Hodler followed the realism of his teacher in Geneva, Barthélemy Menn, but his landscapes and genre scenes soon revealed his striving to spiritualise an ideal or an object instead of using a "pleasant" manner of depiction. His friends in Geneva, among them the literati associated with the symbolists of Paris, contributed to the strengthening of this tendency in his art and to the actual evolution of his large figurative, monumental compositions. Hodler tried to support his painting, imbued with pantheism, with theory. Being enchanted with geometry and the newly emerged natural sciences, he relied on the principle of parallelism, derived from Nature, which he applied in his composition with increasing consistency, by placing images side by side using mirror images and symmetry. Hodler's landscapes always met with great success; however, his monumental, symbolic canvases manifesting his individual style defined by his own choice of themes, strict lines, forms and composition as well as arbitrarily applied colours, won acclaim only when his painting entitled "Night" was exhibited first in Paris in 1891 and shortly after that in Munich, Venice, Berlin and Vienna. From the 1904 exhibition of the Vienna Secession - which earned Hodler not only artistic but also financial recognition - he was considered as being one of the leading figures of the European Secession. From this time he received regular invitations to reputed exhibitions as well as many awards. He worked in seclusion in Geneva from 1914 until his death, mainly on his "Gaze into Infinity", "Blooming/, an (unfinished) monumental figural composition, and his"planetary landscapes". His last paintings depicting Lake Geneva and the Mont-Blanc Range at sunrise and in twilight are strongly expressive of his vision of "Nature's grand and joyous harmony". (Museum of Fine Arts Budapest9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
important exhibitions from Ferdinand Hodler |
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artist's websiteexternal Link to the website of the artist or his gallery/institution: Ferdinand Hodler |
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Galerie Beyeler |
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