Ferdinand Hodler
(1853–1918) schweizisk målare inom symbolism och jugend
Ferdinand Hodler (Switzerland, 1853–1918) is listed in the catalogue as a painter, a printmaker, a draughtsman, and a designer. By year of birth, Ferdinand Hodler belongs to the chapter ‘Post-Impressionism and Symbolism’ in this site’s history of art.
Ferdinand Hodler was born in Bern and died in Geneva. Ferdinand Hodler studied under Barthélemy Menn. Wikidata associates Ferdinand Hodler with Art Nouveau and Symbolism. Ferdinand Hodler became a member of Berlin Secession. Ferdinand Hodler was awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Basel. The students included Käthe Loewenthal, Stephanie Guerzoni, and Georges Alfred Darel.
The best-known works include ‘Le Bûcheron’, ‘La Pointe d'Andey, vallée de l'Arve’, ‘Madame Valentine Godé-Darel malade’, and ‘The Patient’. The catalogue has 82 works by Ferdinand Hodler with free images. The dated works span the years 1873–1918. Works by Ferdinand Hodler are held by several collections, among them Kunstmuseum Basel, Kunsthaus Zürich, Kunstsammlung Thomas Schmidheiny, and Museum of Art and History Geneva. Wikidata links 6 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Post-Impressionism and Symbolism’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Claude Thomas Stanfield Moore, Carl Larsson, João Marques de Oliveira, Juan Francisco González, and Julia Beck.