Visions of Nature and Humanity: The Artistic Legacy of Ferdinand Hodler - Art History School
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
- The Swiss artist Ferdinand Holder was born in Bern in Switzerland in 1853, the eldest of 6 children. The family was poor and at the age of 9 young Ferdinand Hodler worked to help his stepfather paint commercial signs. In 1871 aged 18, Ferdinand Hodler travelled to Geneva to study to become an artist under painter Barthelemy Menn. His painting at this time consisted mainly of Swiss landscapes, figure compositions and portraits, painted in a very vigorous realistic style, much influenced by the French Realist painter, Gustave Courbet.
However, from 1890 his work evolved, absorbing influences from many genres, particularly Symbolism and Art Nouveau. Ferdinand Hodler filled his canvases with monumental and simplified flat figures, often displaying ritualised gestures, and composed with rhythmic and repetitive lines, forms and colours. An artistic style he referred to as Parallelism. Ferdinand Hodler was married twice, but in 1908 he met Valentine Gode-Darel, who became his mistress. He was passionately in love with her, but in 1913 she was diagnosed with cancer. Hodler spent many hours by her bedside drawing, and this resulted in a remarkable series of paintings which documented her gradual decline.
In 1908 the Swiss National Bank commissioned Ferdinand Hodler to create two designs for their new paper currency. Controversially, he chose not to create images of famous men, but a wood cutter and a reaper instead. Both notes eventually appeared in circulation in 1911. Ferdinand Hodler died on the 19th of May 1918 in Geneva. This video will be great for students, art groups and art societies.
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Paul Priestley
Being Swiss and passionate about art history, I always adored Hodlers work! I believe hes very underrated outside Switzerland. Hes Style is so recognizeable and unique. The color pallet and subjects incredible😍
He was a great painter and deserves more recognition. Cheers
very surprising to see a video about Hodler from UK. Great!
Glad you liked it!
Fascinating....many thanks. Interesting how some artists receive commercial notoriety and some smolder intensely unnoticed by the masses.
Yes, a case of being in the right place at the right time
I was introduced to Hodler’s work as symbolism about 5 years ago. But what struck me were his landscape/mountainscape paintings probably done in his last years. I’m pleased to come across this video as it gave me some insight as to the life of this painter. Interestingly, the algorithms must be working as I looked up Hodler a few days ago. His self-portraits depict a handsome man with wide, inquisitive eyes! I only saw them a few days ago, too.
Yes, he was a great painter, much under rated. Cheers
Another amazing artist I'd never heard of before and I'm wondering why after seeing his delectable paintings. It's great to hear about their lives and see their work unfold and bloom. Thank you!
Really pleased you enjoyed the video. I will be uploading a new video next week about the English artist, L S Lowry. Very interesting character.
Your detailed work on art and artists is great
You are very great person
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video. Cheers Paul
I knew nothing about this artist prior to watching this, thankyou.
You are very welcome.
Wonderful video. I am so happy to have found you and to learn about artists I didn’t know. Thank you🙏🏻
You are so welcome! Really pleased you enjoyed the video.
Appreciate the brief format. It gave me time to watch it twice and really absorb it.
That's great, really pleased you enjoyed the video
You turned me onto a new great artist I never heard of before! Gratitude! Your video presentation skills keep it all super-interesting. Great background shots while you speak too! I feel like I’m traveling. Bravo!
That's great, really pleased you like my way of presenting. Switzerland is beautiful but can be very expensive. Cheers Paul
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I really love his paintings. There was a lot of detail yet omission of detail as well. Great artist. Thank you for another great video. Fantastic channel truly
Glad you enjoyed it
Amazing video!! Quite touching. I have become a fan of Hodler ❤️
Glad you like the video, cheers Paul
Did not know this artist. Love his artwork. Thank you
My pleasure
WOW..... it seems like many others, I didn't know this genius! Thank you so very many times.....
You're very welcome!
Every video you make is fantastic. Thank you for them!
You are very welcome. Cheers Paul
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Ferdinand Hodler’s painting “Night” (1890) is quite fascinating with so many self portraits, two significant women in his life and the dark shadow figure of death. Wow, that painting must have been quite newsworthy when it was first exhibited in the Salon.
It is a great painting as you say.
I love Art History!!!
Stunning...
Glad you liked the video.
What an excellent presentation of Ferdinand Holders life, someone I had never heard of before and who I will now research passionately thanks to your account of him here. Thanks Paul, great work.
Really pleased you enjoyed the video. He is a great artist. Cheers Paul
I love these videos and wish you were still creating them.
I am still producing them, but I am a one-man band and things take time and life has to be lived.
Another excellent video. Very interesting, inspiring and educative. Thank you so much!
Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers
Well who knew. I knew who he was but wasn’t familiar with his art. He’s good. A powerful painter. Thanks so much for your videos. Great art galleries of the painters work!!❤️❤️❤️
Glad you enjoyed it
I like his paintings! 🖤🔮
Yes, they are great
Thank you Paul!
Cheers
Brilliant teaching! Love your videos! Thank you.
Really glad you like them! Cheers
Great profile! I enjoy your videos.
That's great, thank you. I shall be launching a new video tomorrow.
Wow great artist...
Yes he is
Thank you Paul for your amazing tutorials!
Glad you like them! Cheers
Phenomenal Artworks.
Great
Another excellent , informative video.
Since i found your channel, i committed to watch one episode a day and learn about new artists.
Thank you so much 🙏😊❤️
Great to hear! I hope you enjoy them. Cheers
Phenomenal artist.
He was
These are great paintings.
I like his work too
This was very interesting! For some reason I liked the earlier- mid timeframe paintings that he did.
Thanks for the video!
I rather like the symbolist paintings, cheers Paul
Wow what a fantastic and articulated summary of this artist. Thanks for introducing me to this amazing artist. I love his works!! Wow
Glad you enjoyed it! Many Thanks.
Thank you for these videos
Glad you like them!
Thank you
You're welcome
Great stuff. I'm really impressed with Hodler. He might be relatively obscure, but it looks like that's due to superficial bias, marketing, and difficulty pigeonholindg him. Thanks for the informative and entertaining video.
He was a great painter, much under rated.
I had no idea. Thank you.
He was a great artist
Thx..never heard of him before..
He was a very interesting artist
The city of Thun is pronounced like this (toon) 🙂 My late husband was from Switzerland. He was born in Zürich, but his ancestors were from Bern. 🙂
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Riveting. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it.
That was so enlightening. Arnold Bocklin would be a good candidate for one of your brief encounters
Thank you. Good idea
Bocklin was probably the most famous Swiss artist of the nineteenth century, while Hodler has a strong claim for being the greatest.
Very interesting I had no idea 🤷🏼♂️ about this guy never heard of him until now, very cool stuff 😁👍🏻.
Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers
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Ferdinand Hodler's son was Hector Hodler, an early organizer and advocate for Esperanto, the international language.
Interesting
Quite interesting--I knew nothing of Ferdinand Hodler's progeny. I wonder if being a citizen of polyglot Switzerland was an impetus behind son Hector's commitment to Esperanto, with its touted potential to simplify communication and understanding between all peoples and nations.
I saw a painting of him in NewYork at MoMa, and I liked very much and I made a picture with it
The Disappointed souls
I think he is much under rated.
@@ArtHistorySchool Me too!
I like the homage to Picasso in your shirt
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Enjoyed this. Try the RUclips Dolcedo Art of the Thunderbolt Ground-floor & Mezzanine.
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Those paintings of his dying mistress is really sad..cancer such a devastating disease..
It certainly is.
Any chance of a video on George Cattermole I think he was my Greatgrand father my grand father was olso called George Cattermole he was a jewel er. In the jewellery quarter in BIRMINGHAM. I think this is were I get my interest in art from. Sadley I have not inearited his talent my grandfather said his father was a artist and he said he knew Charles Dickens
I'll add him to my list, which is now getting very long. Cheers
What does “painting a figure flat” mean?
I assume you mean my comment of, 'simplified flat figures'. This means that the figures are painted with reduced depth and contrast against backgrounds which have little depth or distance. The effect is to flatten the space between foreground and background. This was an idea that other artists would take much further in later years. Picasso, for example, with his Cubist paintings, flattened the space so there was no distance between foreground and background, therefore creating a 'flat' painting which, he felt, was true to the surface on which it is painted, i.e. a flat canvas.
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Can he Hodle bitcoin tho
Hmm!