Ferdinand HODLER

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Ferdinand HODLER
Ferdinand HODLER (1853-1918): Das Rütli, 1871. Cardboard signed lower left. On the back: stamp of the exhibition in Steffisburg (1983), label of the exhibition in Langenthal (1992), label of the sale Sotheby's (2014). Height 32,5 - Width 47,5 cm Provenance : Walter and Maria Krebs-Schüpbach (Hodler's sister-in-law), Herzogenbuchsee, until 1925 - Private collection - Sotheby's Zürich, 2 December 2014, n° 18 - Private collection. Exhibitions : Kunstsammlung Steffisburg, Ferdinand Hodler als Schüler von Ferdinand Sommer, 11 September - 30 Oktober 1983. Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Ferdinand Hodler, Martigny, 1991. Kunstverein Oberaargau, Hodler und der Oberaargau, Langenthal, 1992 (cat. no. 12). Bibliography: Jura Bruschweiler, Ferdinand Hodler, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, 1991, reproduced and described (Le Grütli, 1871) under n° 4, page 27. Oskar Bätschmann - Paul Müller, Ferdinand Hodler, Catalogue raisonné der Gemälde, Band I, Die Landschaften, Zürich, 2008, described and reproduced as no. 36, p. 99. The first patriotic subject that Ferdinand Hodler depicted was not a historical scene but a landscape: the Grütli (Das Rütli in German). Traditionally, the Rütli was the site of the 1291 pact between the representatives of the Waldstätten, but no document specifies the exact location. The Rütli is therefore a mythical mythical place, the place where what was to become Switzerland was supposedly born. When he painted the Rütli, Ferdinand Hodler had just finished his apprenticeship as a painter of "Swiss views" for tourists with the German painter and decorator Ferdinand Sommer in Thun. Hodler began his apprenticeship with Sommer in 1868, the same year that the visit of Queen Victoria of England, who gave her name to countless hotels, established "Swissomania" among English tourists. He left Sommer in 1870, a year before the appearance of postcards, which were to gradually supplant the engraved and painted vedute. (Jura Bruschweiler Hodler Exhibition, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, 1991).
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