Ferdinand Hodler Landscapes

One of the most important of Swiss painters, whose work prefigured art nouveau and modernist abstraction, Ferdinand Hodler first came to international recognition at the Parisian World Exhibition in 1900, where he was awarded a gold medal. From then on, the prominence and value of his paintings increased rapidly, and the artist, who was born in 1853, no longer lived in poverty. In 1891, Hodler's Die Nacht was excluded from showing in Geneva for reasons of indecency; it was well received soon after in Paris, thereby earning the artist acclaim. Other minor scandals followed. But it is surely the landscapes he created during the last two decades of his life that are best known today, collected here as the subject of this book. The included essays discuss their visual grammar, their function as "consensus formula," and the view of nature manifest in them. Extensive captions describe in detail the representational strategies Hodler used to create his signature style.Bezzola, Tobia is the author of 'Ferdinand Hodler Landscapes', published 2004 under ISBN 9783908247784 and ISBN 3908247780.