Hodler, Ferdinand

Ferdinand Hodler: Views & visions

Hodler: Gallery of the Arts (Art Gallery)

Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1819) was one of the best-known Swiss painters of the 19th century and the first great modern painter of Switzerland whose styles straddled the mainstream as they also ventured boldly and courageously into the innovative and the untried. And yet, his artistic stance was always determined by his own uniqueness, regardless of the stylistic isms that developed elsewhere to which Hodler's art might have had affinities. In portraiture, genre, landscape, and historical subjects, the extraordinary vision of Hodler provided a distinctive contribution to the tumultuous world of European art in the decades before World War One. This volume presents a wide range of Hodler's works starting from his early paintings - landscapes, figure compositions and portraits treated with a vigorous realism - as well as his work combining genres including symbolism and art nouveau, up to his final phase of works which took on an expressionistic aspect. The Art Gallery Series is an affordable, high

Ferdinand Hodler

Ferdinand Hodler: Landscapes

Ferdinan Hodler, a Swiss painter who lived from 1853 to 1919, is one of the most important of the country's artists. His work, situated between Realism and Symbolism, was widely shown all over Europe, prefiguring Art Nouveau and Modernist abstraction. His landscape paintings remain the most vital part of his oeuvre, for they provided his field of experimentation and a medium of reflection in which he examined and revised his oeuvre's very conditions. This book presents 70 of his most beautiful and central landscape paintings in lavish color reproductions, thereby documenting the importance of landscapes in the creative development of this seminal European painter. In his first forays into the genre, Hodler was influenced by the late Romantics and French landscape painting. Later, he developed his own quietly monumental style. In the last two decades of his life, he created landscapes that count among the major achievements of modern European painting. In this volume, in-depth essays outline the visual grammar of Hodler's landscape paintings, their function as "consensus formula," and their view of nature. Extensive captions describe in detail the visual strategies Hodler used to create his signature style. Ferdinand Hodler: Landscapes offers an indispensable introduction to the work of this Swiss master.

Edited by Tobia Bezzola, Paul Lang and Paul Mueller. ~Essays by Oskar Baetschmann, Tobia Bezzola and Paul Mueller.

Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.75 in./208 pgs / 120 color and 30 b & w.

Ferdinand Hodler

144 pages. Many pictures. Some are tip-ins. Text in German.

Ferdinand Hodler

Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler is one of Europe's best least-known artists. Though he remained in Switzerland for his entire life, his international reputation has been growing in the past several decades, beginning with a traveling retrospective in the early 1970s. Hodler, who kept up on the latest movements brewing in Paris, is considered a Symbolist who tempered that movement's flights of fancy with Realism. He is regarded as a bridge between the Modern period and the impulses of mid-1800s Realism, Symbolism and Art Nouveau. As may be expected with such a range of influences at the artist's disposal, Hodler's style fluctuated widely throughout his career. His most well known painting may be "The Woodcutter" (1908), which was commissioned as an illustration for the Swiss 50-franc note. "The Woodcutter" is a strange and engaging mixture of Expressionism--the subject is depicted mid-chop in vigorous brush strokes--and Symbolism, as the ghostly landscape behind the figure supports an odd, bright blue, orb-like cloud. More than two decades since his last retrospective, this fresh and extensive assessment of Hodler's paintings finds much new territory to uncover.

Ferdinand Hodler Landschaften

Ferdinand Hodler Der Tag: Vom Realismus Zum Symbolismus

Schweizer Maler und Bildhauer seit Ferdinand Hodler (Stiftung Oskar Reinhart Winterthur, Band 3)

Ferdinand Hodler: Landscapes