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Ferdinand Hodler

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Ferdinand Hodler

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Also known as Hodler, Ferd. Hodler, F. Hodler

Swiss artist (1853–1918)

OverviewAI-generated

Ferdinand Hodler was a male painter, watercolorist, sculptor, and portraitist. He was born on March 14, 1853, and died on May 19, 1918. His nationality is listed as CH and CHE. Hodler worked in the fields of painting, symbolismus umeni, sveiciesu gleznieciba, simbolisms maksla, and secesni malirstvi. He is associated with the languages ger and deu.

The artist has a recorded works count of 36 in one source and 42 in another. He is referenced by 138 other encyclopedia articles. A quote attributed to him is "Vive Vienne. Vive la Secession."

Synthesized by Vinony from 26 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Europeana Sparql, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Wikiquote, VIAF, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1853
Died
1918
Works
42

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
CH
Active from
1853-03-14
Active to
1918-05-19

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1
Total plays
5

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ferdinand+Hodler">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Ferdinand Hodler

Authority record · VIAF

Lifespan
1853–1918
Nationality
CH, CHE
Role / Field
Painters, Watercolorist, Sculpteurs, Portretists, Portraitist, Painting
Language
ger, deu
Gender
Male

Recorded by 29 libraries

via VIAF · OCLC

Quotes

  • The artist's mission is to give shape to what is eternal in nature, to reveal its inherent beauty; he sublimates the shapes of the human body. He shows an enlarged and simplified nature, liberated from all the details, which do not tell us anything. He shows us a work according to the size of his own experience, of his heart and his spirit.
  • When I enter a forest of tall fir trees, reaching toward the sky, I am surrounded, right and left, by their trunks, which seem to me like innumerable columns. Around me, one and the same vertical line is repeated endlessly. Th the extend that these tree trunk are clearly distinguished from a murky background, to the extent that they are well delineated from the blue sky, I am impressed with a feeling of unity, of parallelism.
  • Vive Vienne. Vive la Secession.
  • This beautiful head [of Valentine Godé-Darel], this whole body, like a Byzantine empress on the mosaics of Ravenna - and this nose, this mouth - and the eyes, they too, those wonderful eyes - all these the worms will eat. And nothing will remain, absolutely nothing!
  • 'Parallelism' can be pointed out in the different parts of a single object, looked at alone; it is even more obvious when one puts several objects of the same kind next to each other. Now if we compare our own lives and customs with these appearances in nature, we shall be astonished to find the same principle repeated.. .When an important event is being celebrated, the people face and move in the same direction. These are parallels following each other..

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Key facts

Born
( 1853-03-14 ) March 14, 1853, Bern , Switzerland
Died
May 19, 1918 (1918-05-19) (aged 65), Geneva , Switzerland
Known for
painting
Movement
Symbolism

via Wikipedia infobox

Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Ferdinand Hodler, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

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

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ferdinand Hodler” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Gallery (12)