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In issue 2 /2008 Zh. "Tretyakov Gallery" was a touching article about this artist. Tretyakovtsy fellows. It is illustrated with photos and paintings of his wife.

Meeting Hodler this Parisian Valentine Godet-Darel, who was younger than his 20 years, was a new stage in the creation wizard. Despite the fact that Valentine was already incurably ill with cancer, she gave birth to a healthy daughter, the artist Paulette. Hodler's wife becomes a chronicler of illness, he creates a series of paintings and drawings of work in which a ruthless certainty realist depicts her in all stages of painful dying. Valentine left this world in 7 years after they met with the artist, Hodler experienced it for three years.

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Ferdinand Hodler (14/03/1853 - 19/05/1918) - Playstyle works of this Swiss artist has changed from realism to symbolism, from Symbolism to Art Nouveau. Monumental pictures that have emerged in the early XX century, Hodler made a new impetus to the historic painting.

Hodler was born in Bern in the family of the carpenter and a cook and was the eldest of six children. When he was five years old his father died of tuberculosis. Ferdinand's mother remarried, her husband became a widower with five children. In 1867, he died and his mother, and Ferdinand went to Thun, where he began to study painting with a master landscape painter. Three years later, he stopped his studies and earned his living by painting the alpine landscapes for tourists.

1871: Early work in the realistic style. In 1871, Hodler came to Geneva. During a visit to a museum, he met with the artist Barthelemy Mennom, who took him in his drawing class. During the six-year study Hodler acquainted with the works of French realism. His painting "Carpenter", completed in 1875, was the first thematic reflection of working-class life in Switzerland. Upon graduation in 1877, Hodler went on a journey through France and Spain, where he was fascinated by the works of Andrea Mantegna, Raphael and Velazquez. Returning to Geneva, he took off in the Old City space as a workshop. V1879, in imitation of the models Camille Corot, forerunners of Impressionism, Hodler created the painting "Reaper."

1882: Symbolism. In the first half of the 80 Hodler finished with his former impressionist landscapes and turned to the style of early expressionism. Typical in this sense, such films as "brave woman" (1886), which is clearly manifested angular brushwork with energetic lines and clear rhythm. Through acquaintance with the poet Louis Du hozalem Hodler made friends with the Symbolists and addressed topics related to philosophy. It appeared his pictures with stiff, like monuments figures. His style in their harsh and stiff. In a wall painting beer "Crocodile" (1886) style simplified Hodler - smooth tone without transitions, contoured shape and symmetrical forms.

1889: A scandalous picture. In 1887, during a holiday in the Lake of Thun artist met with Bertha Stucki, whom he married two years later (second marriage - with Bert Jacques). In 1889 came "Night", which became the first example of the so-called overlap Hodler: due to the symmetrical repetition of the same colors and shapes the artist wanted to achieve greater consistency and symbolism paintings. After the first show of this work in 1891 in the "Salon d'Automne" in Geneva, the police requested to remove it from the exhibition hall as "an insult to morality" (which was done). The following year, Hodler celebrated the triumph in Paris, presented to the audience now, where people are portrayed in the old free manner. In Paris, he joined the Rosicrucians (grouping of "Rosy Cross", whose members were opposed to realism) and participated in the first Salon Rosy Cross "in 1892, holding created in the same year the painting" disappointing. " The influence of the mystical teachings of the Rosicrucians and there is further work Hodler - "The outcome of the Universe" (1892), "Elected" (1893/94), "Euritmiya" (1894/95).

1894: The historical pattern in the guise of Art Nouveau. In the mid-90 Hodler focused on historical painting. In 1897 he won the competition for the design of Weaponry in the hall of Zurich museum - his scenes were selected from the Swiss military history. This work, as well as executed in the future "Retreat from Marignano" brought a new impetus to the historical paintings of the time. To enhance the entertainment Hodler resorted to the ornamental structure of the lines that a few went beyond the modernistic style. V1907 he performed another wall work on a historical theme: commissioned by the University of Jena created the painting "Uhodyenskih students on a war of liberation against Napoleon" (1908/09). On the recommendation of Max Liebermann he was assigned (in 1911) formalize the meeting room in City Hall Hannoverskoy: the painting "unanimity" depicted a scene oath of loyalty since the Reformation.

1908: Expressive work of the late period. After painting the walls Hodler has created numerous images of alpine landscapes in an abstract manner (eg, "Lake of Thun, 1909), as well as the impressive images of human figures (" Lumberjack ", 1910 ), preparatory to his expressionism. The last major series of works Hodler was devoted to the death of his mistress, Valentine Gode-Darel. In the pictures of this cycle (for example, "Dying", 1915) Hodler tying the elements of reality and psihologizirovaniya. In 1918, the 65-year-old artist died of pulmonary edema in Geneva.