Ferdinand Hodler: Landscapes
by Ferdinand Hodler
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One of the most important of Swiss painters, whose work prefigured art nouveau and modernist abstraction, Ferdinand Hodler first came to international recognition at the Parisian World Exhibition in 1900, where he was awarded a gold medal. From then on, the prominence and value of his paintings increased rapidly, and the artist, who was born in 1853, no longer lived in poverty. In 1891, Hodler's Die Nacht was excluded from showing in Geneva for reasons of indecency; it was well received soon show more after in Paris, thereby earning the artist acclaim. Other minor scandals followed. But it is surely the landscapes he created during the last two decades of his life that are best known today, collected here as the subject of this book. The included essays discuss their visual grammar, their function as "consensus formula," and the view of nature manifest in them. Extensive captions describe in detail the representational strategies Hodler used to create his signature style. show lessTags
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The book, which was published on the occasion of the exhibition: “Ferdinand Hodler. Landscapes”, is divided into four main sections: Prolog; Nature; Mountains; Lakes; which in turn are subdivided. Each section and division opens with a very brief introduction of a page or two or text which is followed by a series of full page colour plates. The book concludes with a short essay: Landscape as Consensus Formula; a fully illustrated (thumbnails predominately in colour) Catalogue of Exhibited Works; a Biography; Notes and a Bibliography. There are three further essays to be found in the book: the opening “Holder Landscapes”; “Ferdinand Holder – Organized Nature”; and “The Sketched Landscape”.
Illustrations predominate in show more this fine publication: 120 in colour plus 30 black and white, the latter includes drawings and period photographs, the former repeats in the Catalogue section in the form of thumbnails. The essays, which are illustrated in black and white, are very informative. The plates are well presented, sensibly sized on the page, although the landscape format pictures do not fair quite so well on the portrait proportion page; the colours are rich and the images crisp and clean. There are several full page bleed illustrations showing a close-up of a selected painting which clearly reveal the brush work and texture of the paint surface. Altogether a very attractive publication. show less
Illustrations predominate in show more this fine publication: 120 in colour plus 30 black and white, the latter includes drawings and period photographs, the former repeats in the Catalogue section in the form of thumbnails. The essays, which are illustrated in black and white, are very informative. The plates are well presented, sensibly sized on the page, although the landscape format pictures do not fair quite so well on the portrait proportion page; the colours are rich and the images crisp and clean. There are several full page bleed illustrations showing a close-up of a selected painting which clearly reveal the brush work and texture of the paint surface. Altogether a very attractive publication. show less
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