Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler is one of Europe's best least-known artists.Though he remained in Switzerland for his entire life，his international reputation has been growing in the past several decades，beginning with a traveling retrospective in the early 1970s.Hodler，who kept up on the latest movements brewing in Paris，is considered a Symbolist who tempered that movement's flights of fancy with Realism.He is regarded as a bridge between the Modern period and the impulses of mid-1800s Realism，Symbolism and Art Nouveau.As may be expected with such a range of influences at the artist's disposal，Hodler's style fluctuated widely throughout his career.His most well known painting may be “The Woodcutter” (1908)，which was commissioned as an illustration for the Swiss 50-franc note.

Hodler in Bern and Budapest-Preface and Acknowledgements

Ferdinand Hodler：A Symbolist Vision

Realism in Ornamentation：Ferdinand Hodler's Idea of Unity

The Painter's Decalogue

Hodler and Romanticism

The Structure of Eternal Recurrence：On the Landscape Painting of Ferdinand Hodler

The "Honorable Hodlers"：The Main Symbolist Works at the Kunstmuseum Bern

Ferdinand Hodler and the Salon de la Rose+Croix

Sharon Latchaw Hirsh

The Body in Rhythmic Motion： Ferdinand Hodler's Figure Painting in the Context of the Revival of Dance around 1900

Verena Senti-Schmidlin

Commentaries Ⅰ：From Realism to Symbolism： 1874 to 1890

Commentaries Ⅱ：Landscapes near Geneva around 1890

Commentaries Ⅲ：Symbolist Figure Paintings and Landscapes of the 1890s

Commentaries Ⅳ：Art Nouveau Compositions in the New Century

Commentaries Ⅴ：At Lake Thun and Lake Geneva around 1905

Ferdinand Hodler's "Decorative"

Landscapes： A Conversation before Paintings

Aspects of Landscape in the Work of Ferdinand Hodler

Ferdinand Hodler's Portrait Series of the Sick, Dying, and Dead Valentine Gode-Darel

On Hodler's View into Infinity

Light in the Art of Ferdinand Hodler

Hodler's Historical Paintings (Marignano, Jena, Hanover)

Biography

Commentaries Ⅵ：Peaks and Lakes, 1907-12

Commentaries Ⅶ：Compositions and Portraits, 1911/12

Commentaries Ⅷ：Self-Portraits 1914/15

Commentaries Ⅸ：Late Landscapes and Self-Portraits

Notes

Bibliography

List of Exhibited Works

Photo Credits

Authors of the Commentaries