Ferdinand Hodler. Landscapes
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With essays by Oskar Bätschmann, Tobia Bezzola, and Paul Müller Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1919) is one of the most important Swiss painters. His work, situated between Realism and Symbolism, was widely shown all over Europe, prefiguring art nouveau and modernist abstraction. His landscape paintings remain the most vital part of his oeuvre. Landscapes were his field of experimentation and a medium of reflection, in which he examined and revised his works very conditions. The book shows 70 of his most beautiful and important landscape paintings in lavish color reproductions and documents the impo...
With essays by Oskar Bätschmann, Tobia Bezzola, and Paul Müller Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1919) is one of the most important Swiss painters. His work, situated between Realism and Symbolism, was widely shown all over Europe, prefiguring art nouveau and modernist abstraction. His landscape paintings remain the most vital part of his oeuvre. Landscapes were his field of experimentation and a medium of reflection, in which he examined and revised his works very conditions. The book shows 70 of his most beautiful and important landscape paintings in lavish color reproductions and documents the importance of landscapes in the creative development of this seminal European painter. In his beginnings, Hodler was influenced by the late Romantics and French landscape painting. Later he developed his own quiet monumental style. In the last two decades of his life, he created landscapes that count among the major achievements of modern European painting. We have examined the syntax of Hodlers landscape work. We want to elaborate on Hodlers compositional principles, the methods he used to synthesize elements of actual natural phenomena into the whole of an image. A sentence is not an arbitrary mix of words, nor are Hodlers landscapes snapshots of Swiss scenery. [...] Landscape, one realizes, is only possible within the framework of a well-defined syntax, which in Hodlers case is more deep-seated than mere variations of representing plasticity and color.from the introduction In-depth essays outline the visual grammar of Hodlers landscape paintings, their function as consensus formula, and their view of nature. Extensive captions describe in detail the visual strategies Hodler used to create his signature style. An indispensable introduction to the work of this Swiss master.