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.
Hodler in Bern and Budapest-Preface and Acknowledgements
Ferdinand Hodler:A Symbolist Vision
Realism in Ornamentation:Ferdinand Hodler's Idea of Unity
The Painter's Decalogue
Hodler and Romanticism
The Structure of Eternal Recurrence:On the Landscape Painting of Ferdinand Hodler
The "Honorable Hodlers":The Main Symbolist Works at the Kunstmuseum Bern
Ferdinand Hodler and the Salon de la Rose+Croix
Sharon Latchaw Hirsh
The Body in Rhythmic Motion: Ferdinand Hodler's Figure Painting in the Context of the Revival of Dance around 1900
Verena Senti-Schmidlin
Commentaries Ⅰ:From Realism to Symbolism: 1874 to 1890
Commentaries Ⅱ:Landscapes near Geneva around 1890
Commentaries Ⅲ:Symbolist Figure Paintings and Landscapes of the 1890s
Commentaries Ⅳ:Art Nouveau Compositions in the New Century
Commentaries Ⅴ:At Lake Thun and Lake Geneva around 1905
Ferdinand Hodler's "Decorative"
Landscapes: A Conversation before Paintings
Aspects of Landscape in the Work of Ferdinand Hodler
Ferdinand Hodler's Portrait Series of the Sick, Dying, and Dead Valentine Gode-Darel
On Hodler's View into Infinity
Light in the Art of Ferdinand Hodler
Hodler's Historical Paintings (Marignano, Jena, Hanover)
Biography
Commentaries Ⅵ:Peaks and Lakes, 1907-12
Commentaries Ⅶ:Compositions and Portraits, 1911/12
Commentaries Ⅷ:Self-Portraits 1914/15
Commentaries Ⅸ:Late Landscapes and Self-Portraits
Notes
Bibliography
List of Exhibited Works
Photo Credits
Authors of the Commentaries