Ferdinand hodler landscapes images

Hodler spent the summer of 1902 in the Bernese Oberland, painting landscapes in and of the Kiental.

However, 'Kiental mit Blümlisalp' is unique among Hodler’s work, as he chose an aggressively vertical format for the canvas, exaggerating the steep peaks and the interlacing of the foothills.

Drawing on the Swiss landscape tradition but equally engaging with the international avant-garde, Hodler allied Swiss painting with the most advanced currents of modern art.

Over the last century, Hodler’s fame has remained strong in his native Switzerland but his work only became widely known elsewhere in the last 50 years.

From a landmark exhibition at Harvard in 1972 to the Slade Lectures delivered at Oxford in that same year, the reassessment of Hodler began in the 1970s, as scholars saw his work in relationship to Caspar David Friedrich, Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch a