Ferdinand hodler

Discover Pinterest’s best ideas and inspiration for Ferdinand hodler. Get inspired and try out new things.
Ferdinand Hodler, “Portrait of Emma Schmidt-Müller (1915), Oil on canvas.Private Collection, Switzerland. Gustav Klimt, Neo Classicism, Ferdinand Hodler, Figurative Kunst, L'art Du Portrait, Aubrey Beardsley, Alberto Giacometti, Egon Schiele, Vincent Van

A cloud of criticism, apology and embarrassment hangs over the oeuvre of Ferdinand Hodler, the prodigiously talented Swiss painter who was born the same year as Vincent van Gogh (1853) and died, like Gustav Klimt, in 1918. Hodler’s work bridges the academic neo-classicism of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (his teacher’s teacher) at one end and the Viennese Expressionism of Klimt and Egon Schiele on the other, a coupling that accounts as much for its manipulative magnetism as for its…

Related interests