As a Swiss Private Bank, it is natural for us to promote the Swiss cultural heritage.
Thus, within the partnership that we built with the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire of Geneva, we present you a selection of paintings by Swiss artist Ferdinand Hodler. Those paintings are currently exhibited at the Musée d’art et d’histoire”of Geneva, which is located across from our Headquarters.

Ferdinand Hodler is considered to be the Swiss artist that has most influenced the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth.

Paintings here below correspond to a specific period of Hodler’s life that follows its participation in 1904 to the nineteenth Secession exhibition in Vienna. From that time, Hodler concentrated more on his production of landscape paintings which are characterized by the absence of human figures and more generally, in reaction to the Positivism of his century – by a distancing from all trace of civilization. It is thus that he came to execute what are conventionally dubbed his "Planetary Landscapes" which, more often than not, depict Lake of Geneva.

		Le Lac Léman et le Mont Blanc (la rade de Genève à l’aube) Ferdinand Hodler 1918 Huile sur Toile, 61.2 x 128cm © Musée d’art et d’histoire, Ville de Genève Photo : Bettina Jacot-Descombes
		La Jungfrau vue de Mürren Ferdinand Hodler 1914 Huile sur Toile, 62.8 x 86 cm © Musée d’art et d’histoire, Ville de Genève Photo : Yves Siza
		Le lac de Thoune et le massif du Stockhorn Ferdinand Hodler 1912 Huile sur Toile, 57.2 x 80.6 cm © Musée d’art et d’histoire, Ville de Genève  Photo : Bettina Jacot-Descombes
		Le lac de Thoune aux reflets symétriques Ferdinand Hodler 1905 Huile sur Toile, 80.2 x 100 cm © Musée d’art et d’histoire, Ville de Genève Photo : Bettina Jacot-Descombes
		Le Lac Léman et le Mont-Blanc (La chaîne du Mont-Blanc) Ferdinand Hodler 1918 Huile sur Toile, 60 x 80 cm © Musée d’art et d’histoire, Ville de Genève Photo : Flora Bevilacqua
		Le Lac de Thoune et le massif du Stockhorn (La chaîne du Stockhorn) Ferdinand Hodler 1913 Huile sur Toile, 67.2 x 89 cm © Musée d’art et d’histoire, Ville de Genève Photo : Bettina Jacot-Descombes
		Le Lac Léman et le Mont Blanc (la rade de Genève et le Mont Blanc à l’aube, avec cygnes) Ferdinand Hodler 1918 Huile sur Toile, 77 x 152.2 cm © Musée d’art et d’histoire, Ville de Genève Photo : Yves Siza