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Ferdinand Hodler
Ferdinand Hodler 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".
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culture · Swiss painter (1853–1918) · painter · university teacher · designer · lithographer · graphic artist · exlibrist · watercolorist · draftsperson · diorama maker · fresco painter · also Ferdinand Hodler, Hodler, Ferd. Hodler, F. Hodler
Born 14 March 1853 · Died 19 May 1918 · Q214564
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2026· 2 entries
Artnet news: Ferdinand Hodler and Jeanne Charles Cerani-Ciic
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2025· 1 entry
Moviefone: Ferdinand Hodler - The Heart Is My Eye
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2021· 1 entry
Swissinfo: How Berlin made Ferdinand Hodler, and vice-versa
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2015· 1 entry
THE WEEK: Ferdinand Hodler: View to Infinity
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2012· 1 entry
America Magazine: The Hard-won Art of Ferdinand Hodler
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1938· 1 entry
Turned up in the collection of Swiss politician Christoph Blocher, it set off a debate about Nazi looted art in Switzerland
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1918· 1 entry
Died 1918-05-19.
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1914· 1 entry
Signed a petition of intellectuals from Geneva condemning the German atrocities conducted using artillery against the Cathedral of Rheims
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1913· 1 entry
Godé-Darel was diagnosed with a gynecological cancer, and the many hours Hodler spent by her bedside resulted in a remarkable series of paintings documenting her decline from the disease
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1908· 3 entries
The Swiss National Bank commissioned Hodler to create two designs for new paper currency
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Career landmark: chairperson (1908–1918).
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Hodler met Valentine Godé-Darel, who became his mistress, although he continued to live with his second wife
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1904· 1 entry
Showed 31 works in Vienna, which brought him enhanced recognition and a sales success that finally eased his poverty
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1900· 1 entry
Hodler exhibited three major works—Night, Eurythmy, and Day (1900)—at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, where they won awards
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1898· 1 entry
Hodler married Berthe Jacques (1868–1957), whom he had met in 1894
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1897· 1 entry
Accepted a commission to paint a series of large frescoes for the Weapons Room of the Schweizerisches Landesmuseum in Zurich
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1891· 1 entry
Hodler was married to Bertha Stucki, who is depicted in his painting, Poetry (1897, Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich)
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1890· 1 entry
Completed Night, a work that marked Hodler's turn toward symbolist imagery
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1884· 1 entry
Hodler met Augustine Dupin (1852–1909), who became his companion and model for the next several years
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1878· 1 entry
Where he stayed for several months and studied the works of masters such as Titian, Poussin, and Velázquez in the Museo del Prado
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1875· 1 entry
Where he studied the paintings of Hans Holbein—especially Dead Christ in the Tomb, which influenced Hodler's many treatments of the theme of death
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1873· 1 entry
Became a student of Barthélemy Menn, and investigated Dürer’s writings on proportions
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1871· 1 entry
At the age of 18, Hodler travelled on foot to Geneva to start his career as a painter
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1867· 1 entry
Hodler was sent to Thun to apprentice with a local painter, Ferdinand Sommer
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1853· 1 entry
Born 1853-03-14.
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