Artworks Credits

Ferdinand Hodler is considered to be the Swiss artist that has had the most influence on the painting of the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century.
Paintings herebelow correspond to a specific period of Hodler’s life that follows his participation in 1904 to the Nineteenth Secession exhibition in Vienna. From that time, Hodler concentrated more on his production of landscape paintings which are characterised by the absence of human figures and more generally, in reaction to the Positivism of his century, by a distancing from all trace of civilisation. It is thus that he came to execute what are conventionally dubbed his “Planetary Landscapes” which, more often than not, depict Lake of Geneva.