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Ferdinand Hodler
1853Mar, 14

Ferdinand Hodler

Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (d. 1918)
Ferdinand Hodler (March 14, 1853 – May 19, 1918) was one of the best-known Swiss painters of the nineteenth century.

His early works were portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings in a realistic style. Later, he adopted a personal form of symbolism which he called "parallelism".

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