DOI issue:
No. 370 (January 1924)
DOI article:Taylor, Horace: Ferdinand Hodler
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21399#0027
FERDINAND HODLER
“ THE HISTORIAN.” BY
FERDINAND HODLER
(By courtesy of Messrs.
Rascher & Co., Zurich)
was after he had found salvation in the
mystic cult of the Rosicrucians that he
discovered: “ Un principe ordonnateur qui
devait lui apporter la forme convenable
pour les vastes impressions, satisfaisait sa
raison, depouillait les sentiments humains
de leur dangereux naturalisme et assurait
libre carriere a la volonte creatrice pour
toutes les formes de la realisation(Dr.
Ewald Bender). Four or five figures ar-
ranged symmetrically usually fill the whole
canvas, the background being of the
vaguest—sky or space or an unending
green meadow—the landscape of a dream.
Hodler is not easy to place in modern
movements. For this reason perhaps pro-
fessional critics in this country have fought
shy of him. His work must be seen to be
understood. There is a splendid collection
of practically every style in the Kunsthaus
at Zurich, and some half-a-dozen of his
finest pictures in Berne, and both galleries
should be visited by all art-lovers travel-
ling in Switzerland. 0000
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“ THE HISTORIAN.” BY
FERDINAND HODLER
(By courtesy of Messrs.
Rascher & Co., Zurich)
was after he had found salvation in the
mystic cult of the Rosicrucians that he
discovered: “ Un principe ordonnateur qui
devait lui apporter la forme convenable
pour les vastes impressions, satisfaisait sa
raison, depouillait les sentiments humains
de leur dangereux naturalisme et assurait
libre carriere a la volonte creatrice pour
toutes les formes de la realisation(Dr.
Ewald Bender). Four or five figures ar-
ranged symmetrically usually fill the whole
canvas, the background being of the
vaguest—sky or space or an unending
green meadow—the landscape of a dream.
Hodler is not easy to place in modern
movements. For this reason perhaps pro-
fessional critics in this country have fought
shy of him. His work must be seen to be
understood. There is a splendid collection
of practically every style in the Kunsthaus
at Zurich, and some half-a-dozen of his
finest pictures in Berne, and both galleries
should be visited by all art-lovers travel-
ling in Switzerland. 0000
9