Artist

Ferdinand Hodler

Portrait of Ferdinand Hodler
Portrait of Ferdinand Hodler

Swiss, 1853–1918

Ferdinand Hodler was a Swiss Symbolism painter. 78 works are cataloged here, principally at Kunsthaus Zürich, most of them oil paintings. Ferdinand Hodler was born in Bern.

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".

Works by Ferdinand Hodler

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