Hodler biography

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    Ferdinand Hodler

    Early Life

    Ferdinand Holder was born in Bern in Switzerland in 1853, the eldest of 6 children. Tuberculosis killed his father and his 2 younger brothers by the time he was 8 years old. As a result, his mother later remarried, marrying Gottlieb Schüpach, a decorative painter who had 5 children from a previous marriage. After the birth of additional children, Hodler’s family eventually numbered 13. The family was poor so the young Hodler was put to work helping his stepfather to paint commercial signs. Hodler’s mother died when he was 13, resulting in Hodler being sent to the town of Thun to work as an apprentice to a local landscape painter, called Ferdinand Sommer. From him, he learnt the craft of copying prints of Alpine landscapes to create paintings. He subsequently sold the paintings in shops for the tourist trade.

    Influences

    In 1871 aged 18, Hodler travelled to Geneva to study under painter Barthelemy Menn. Travelling to Basel in 1875 he studied the paint

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    Ferdinand Hodler. Catalogue Raisonné der Gemälde, Die Landschaften
    Oskar Bätschmann and Paul Müller, with contributions bygd Regula Bolleter, Monika Brunner, Matthias Fischer and Matthias Oberli.
    Zurich: Swiss Institute for Art Research/ Scheidegger & Spiess, 2008.
    Volume 1: 262 pp.
    Volume 2: 366 pp; numerous color & b/w illus; index.
    CHF 640 (ca. $580)
    ISBN 978-3-85881-244-5
    Online access at: http://www.sik-isea.ch
    Cost for access code to web-based catalogue: CHF 80 (ca. $72)

    All photographs courtesy of the Swiss Institute for Art Research


    Fig. 1, Hodler catalogue raisonné der Gemälde, grupp 1, Landschaften, Volume 1.




    Fig. 2, Hodler catalogue raisonné der Gemälde, Band 1, Landschaften, Volume 2.

    Considered a leading figure in modern European art during his lifetime, Ferdinand Hodler (1853 – 1918) was Switzerland's first great modern painter. He was the one who managed to break away completely from the provincialism of his home country while remaining th

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    Ferdinand Hodler

    Swiss painter (1853–1918)

    Ferdinand Hodler

    Self-portrait, 1912

    Born(1853-03-14)March 14, 1853

    Bern, Switzerland

    DiedMay 19, 1918(1918-05-19) (aged 65)

    Geneva, Switzerland

    Known forpainting
    MovementSymbolism

    Ferdinand Hodler (March 14, 1853 – May 19, 1918) was a Swiss painter. He is 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 which he called "parallelism".

    Early life

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    Hodler was born in Bern, 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.[2] His mother remarried, to a decorative painter named Gottlieb Schüpach

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