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🎨 #FerdinandHodler, Swiss painter, was #BOTD 14 March 1853. #Art #Painting

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#FerdinandHodler

Selbstbildnis (1900)

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#peoplematchingartworks #ferdinandhodler #berlinischegalerie #stefandraschan #photography #contemporaryart #berlin

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#peoplematchingartworks #ferdinandhodler #berlinischegalerie #stefandraschan #photography #contemporaryart #berlin

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#peoplematchingartworks #ferdinandhodler
#belvederemuseum #stefandraschan #photography
#contemporaryart #vienna

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Portrait of Berthe Jacques (the artist's wife), (1894)

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Hodler, Ferdinand (1902). 'The Kien Valley with the Bluemlisalp Massif'

Hodler, Ferdinand (1902). 'The Kien Valley with the Bluemlisalp Massif'

Friggin' beautiful. Hodler, Ferdinand (1902). 'The Kien Valley with the Bluemlisalp Massif'. #beaufordantonstenberg #ferdinandhodler

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'Unha moza de Berna'
de Ferdinand Hodler

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#artgallery
#artcollectors
#discoverart
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Nochmal #ferdinandhodler

#hodler #swissartist #mahgeneve

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Ach… Hodler

#ferdinandhodler #hodler #art #swissart

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The comeback of a Kpop group I like has not lived up to my expectations.

Image: The Disappointed Souls -- Ferdinand Hodler --1892 -- Kunstmuseum Bern

#Kpop #FerdinandHodler #DisappointedSouls #Painting #Art #19thCenturyArt #SwissArt

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Ferdinand Hodler - Femme en extase (1911)
#arte #art #ferdinandhodler

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Swiss artist Ferdinand Hodler depicts a barefoot woman standing, her head bowed left and her dark hair streaming back. She wears a sleeveless gown of deep blue and rust-red that billows around her legs; blue contours and bold outlines sculpt folds and shadows. Both hands rise to her chest with splayed fingers, as if feeling a surge of inner music. The background is a flat ochre field punctuated by red splashes. A greenish cast to her skin and rhythmic lines heighten the feeling of suspended ecstasy. Her bare feet rest on a ledge; the left foot angles outward, stepping forward. The brushed ochre background shows swirls and thin patches as red patches drift upward like loose petals.

Hodler, Switzerland’s foremost painter of the fin-de-siècle, reached artistic maturity when he created "Femme en Extase (Woman in Ecstasy)." Rising from a childhood scarred by poverty and loss, he forged a style he called “parallelism,” emphasizing rhythmic repetition, symmetry, and archetypal expression. 

In the early 1900s, Hodler created a series of monumental figure studies representing human “states of being” like joy, grief, desire, and transcendence. "Femme en Extase" belongs to this body of work, presenting the female form not as portrait but as an emblem of rapture, surrender, and timeless archetype. At this stage, he was celebrated across Europe, embraced by the Vienna and Berlin Secessionists, who admired how he fused realism with symbolism. 

Hodler’s stylized figures, with their simplified planes and dramatic gestures, anticipated expressionist explorations of inner life and emotional truth. Critics sometimes dismissed his theatricality, but his quest to reveal universal emotions through the human body left a lasting imprint on modern art. His work helped define Swiss national identity while influencing a generation of European modernists who sought to merge the physical and spiritual in painting.

Swiss artist Ferdinand Hodler depicts a barefoot woman standing, her head bowed left and her dark hair streaming back. She wears a sleeveless gown of deep blue and rust-red that billows around her legs; blue contours and bold outlines sculpt folds and shadows. Both hands rise to her chest with splayed fingers, as if feeling a surge of inner music. The background is a flat ochre field punctuated by red splashes. A greenish cast to her skin and rhythmic lines heighten the feeling of suspended ecstasy. Her bare feet rest on a ledge; the left foot angles outward, stepping forward. The brushed ochre background shows swirls and thin patches as red patches drift upward like loose petals. Hodler, Switzerland’s foremost painter of the fin-de-siècle, reached artistic maturity when he created "Femme en Extase (Woman in Ecstasy)." Rising from a childhood scarred by poverty and loss, he forged a style he called “parallelism,” emphasizing rhythmic repetition, symmetry, and archetypal expression. In the early 1900s, Hodler created a series of monumental figure studies representing human “states of being” like joy, grief, desire, and transcendence. "Femme en Extase" belongs to this body of work, presenting the female form not as portrait but as an emblem of rapture, surrender, and timeless archetype. At this stage, he was celebrated across Europe, embraced by the Vienna and Berlin Secessionists, who admired how he fused realism with symbolism. Hodler’s stylized figures, with their simplified planes and dramatic gestures, anticipated expressionist explorations of inner life and emotional truth. Critics sometimes dismissed his theatricality, but his quest to reveal universal emotions through the human body left a lasting imprint on modern art. His work helped define Swiss national identity while influencing a generation of European modernists who sought to merge the physical and spiritual in painting.

Femme en Extase (Woman in Ectasy) by Ferdinand Hodler (Swiss) - Oil on canvas on wood / 1911 - Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève (Switzterland) #WomenInArt #art #Hodler #FerdinandHodler #artwork #SwissArt #PortraitofaWoman #ectasy #MAH #MuseumofArtandHistory #artText #SwissArtist #parallelism

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Ferdinand Hodler 
(1853–1918)
Die Nacht

Ferdinand Hodler (1853–1918) Die Nacht

#Goodnight

Ferdinand Hodler
(1853–1918)
Die Nacht
#FerdinandHodler #Painting #Art

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Tableau de Ferdinand Hodler - Une vue du lac de Brienz depuis Bodeli

Tableau de Ferdinand Hodler - Une vue du lac de Brienz depuis Bodeli

Ferdinand Hodler - Une vue du lac de Brienz depuis Bodeli
#arte #ferdinandhodler #art

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Panorama Schweiz. Aus Anlass der Ausstellung Kirchner × Kirchner (12.9.2025–11.1.2026) zeigt das Kunstmuseum Bern in einer umfangreichen Sammlungspräsentation Schweizer Kunst aus drei Jahrhunderten.

In Bern könnt ihr ab dem 15.8. auch bei schlechtem Wetter den Blick in die Ferne schweifen lassen: In #PanoramaSchweiz zeigen wir #SwissArt von #CasparWolf bis #FerdinandHodler im #KunstmuseumBern – beim #Städtetrip hochkarätige #SwissArtists & die Schweiz entdecken!
🚶‍➡️🏔️🚡🧗 kunstmuseumbern.ch/panorama

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The Day - Ferdinand Hodler - Google Arts & Culture While his early work bore opulent testimony to realism, in the 1890s Ferdinand Hodler took a turn towards Symbolism, a reaction to naturalism and materiali...

I saw this picture in Zurich more than thirty years ago. It has remained with me, continually returning to my mind's eye, ever since.

https://g.co/arts/PAi4reDyes7m9DjPA

#Art #Painting #FerdinandHodler #TheDay #SwissArt #KunsthausZürich #Zürich #Switzerland

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Ferdinand Hodler 🇨🇭👨🏻‍🎨
fallece #19Mayo de 1918🙏🏼
El paralelismo que definió como repetición de formas semejantes, fue el sello de sus obras, también logró introducirlo en los paisajes 🖼
#FelizLunes
#FerdinandHodler #Arte
#Simbolismo #Pintura
#OtrebordmXCultura

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Emotion | Die Empfindung (1902), by Ferdinand Hodler
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#emotion #art #painting #ferdinandhodler

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Five Dreams and a Nightmare (2025)

A mashup of Ferdinand Hodler's excellent "Die Nacht" for our times where everything is blurry and chaotic.

Five Dreams and a Nightmare (2025) A mashup of Ferdinand Hodler's excellent "Die Nacht" for our times where everything is blurry and chaotic.

Five Dreams and a Nightmare (2025)

A mashup of Ferdinand Hodler's excellent "Die Nacht" for our times where everything is blurry and chaotic.

#art
#alteredpainting
#photocollage
#surrealism
#symbolism
#ferdinandhodler
#chaos

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Ferdinand Hodler (Berna, 14 de Março de 1853 – Genebra, 19 de Maio de 1918), pintor suíço.

Le Lac de Thoune depuis Lessigen, 1904.

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Ferdinand Hodler (14 de Março de 1853 – 19 de Maio de 1918), pintor suíço.

Auto-retrato, 1912.

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🎨 #FerdinandHodler, Swiss painter, was #BOTD 14 March 1853. #Art #Painting

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Ferdinand Hodler - Au pied du petit Salève (1893)
#ferdinandhodler #arte #art

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Ferdinand Hodler - Couturière
#ferdinandhodler #arte #art

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#kunsthauszurich
#autoportrait

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Ferdinand Hodler - The Night (1891)
#FerdinandHodler #Symbolist #GwyllmLlwydd

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