Ferdinand Hodler
Sign in to saveSwiss artist (1853–1918)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1853
- Died
- 1918
- Works
- 42
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 5
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ferdinand+Hodler">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Circular RNAs are a large class of animal RNAs with regulatory potency
· 2013 · cited 6,742x
- Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,473x
- Endovascular Therapy for Ischemic Stroke with Perfusion-Imaging Selection
· 2015 · cited 5,068x
- Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology
· 2015 · cited 4,218x
- A SARS-CoV-2 protein interaction map reveals targets for drug repurposing
· 2020 · cited 3,933x
via Crossref · CC0
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..”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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
Article
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