Ferdinand Hodler
Ferdinand Hodler | |
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Self-portrait, 1912 | |
| Born | March 14, 1853 Bern, Switzerland |
| Died | May 19, 1918 (aged 65) Geneva, Switzerland |
| Known for | painting |
| Movement | Symbolism |
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Ferdinand Hodler (March 14, 1853 – May 19, 1918) was a Swiss painter. He is one of the best-known Swiss painters of the nineteenth century. His early works were portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings in a realistic style. Later, he adopted a personal form of Symbolism which he called "parallelism".