Swiss1853–1918
Ferdinand Hodler
Switzerland's leading painter around 1900, known for rhythmic, symmetrical landscapes of the Alps and Lake Geneva and for large figure paintings.
A life in paintings
- 1853Born
- 1897The Vienna Secession is founded
Young Viennese artists break away from the official academy to show modern art and design.
Source: Wikipedia - 1904Influenced Gustav KlimtVienna
Hodler's 1904 show at the Vienna Secession was his international breakthrough, and the Leopold Museum names him an important inspiration to Klimt, Moser and Schiele. Klimt had invited him to the first Secession exhibition in 1897.
Source: Leopold Museum - 1905
- 1918Died
Circles
Exhibition · New York, Chicago, Boston · 1913
Armory Show (1913)
The International Exhibition of Modern Art that introduced European modern art to American audiences, shown in New York, Chicago and Boston in 1913. Members here are artists whose work was included, living or not.
- Alfred Sisley
- Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso
- André Derain
- Camille Pissarro
- Childe Hassam
- Claude Monet
- Edgar Degas
- Édouard Manet
- Edvard Munch
- Edward Hopper
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- Fernand Léger
- George Wesley Bellows
- Georges Seurat
- Gustave Courbet
- Henri Matisse
- Henri Rousseau
- Henri-Edmond Cross
- Joseph Stella
- Marsden Hartley
- Mary Cassatt
- Maurice Prendergast
- Paul Cézanne
- Paul Signac
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Robert Delaunay
- Vincent van Gogh
- Wassily Kandinsky
- William Glackens
Society · Vienna · 1897
Vienna Secession
Founded 3 April 1897 by Klimt (first president), Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann and Joseph Maria Olbrich. Klimt, Hoffmann and Moser resigned on 14 June 1905.
Where to see them
Kunstmuseum Basel
Basel
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