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Mirror-image constructed lake landscapes, self-portraits as reflections on the essence of the self and nature: these are the central motifs that preoccupied the Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918) throughout his life.
In the early phase of the film, as early as 1896, Hodler did not miss the opportunity to stage himself in the hustle and bustle of hat-waving visitors and artist colleagues at the opening ceremony of the Geneva National Exhibition. The facial features and stature of the slender man with beard, dressed in suit and melon, correspond to those he himself drew of himself in his self-portraits. The contours of his eyes and ears have the same shape as in contemporary photographs. The scene immortalized on celluloid, which Hodler's moving image transmits, was documented by the artist himself in his notes. It was taken around the time when the Thun-born painter's high-altitude flight was approaching an abrupt decline.
At first the young Hodler, who had grown up in poor circumstances, had been encouraged as an extraordinary, promising talent. He received the undivided support of the academies and art critics, and was offered teaching positions and solo exhibitions. With his panoramic landscape paintings, he quickly achieved prosperity in the Geneva art scene. Hodler travelled throughout Europe and soon became the most renowned painter in Switzerland. Even today his paintings still fetch record prices: In 2007, Lake Geneva from Saint-Prex achieved an auction result of over 10 million euros, making it the most expensive painting in Switzerland.
With the outbreak of the Second World War the tide finally turned. Hodler's criticism of the Germans' aggressive actions, especially their bombing of Reims Cathedral, made him a target of attacks by the German press. The Munich Secession did not miss the opportunity to defame the artist in public. While the circle around the Blauer Reiter, including Alexej von Jawlensky, Franz Marc, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, organized joint exhibitions of German, Dutch, Russian and French artists, the accredited Munich artistic elite fell into nationalist propaganda, describing Hodler's statement as an "expression of spiteful sentiment":"Anyone who lives in Switzerland, who has a German-sounding name and does not want to understand what is at stake in this war, and does not know how much our Germany means for the morality of Europe, indeed, that the safeguarding of the highest cultural goods depends on our victory, lacks the inner education that makes the great artist in the first place.“ Hodler's exclusion from the most important artists' associations was the immediate consequence. The painting Auszug der deutschen Studenten in den Freiheitskrieg von 1813, a jewel of the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, had to be taken down and sold. Hodler's international career was thus ended. Only his Swiss compatriots preserved the memory of the Symbolist, to whom exhibitions in the world's most famous museums are dedicated today.
Mirror-image constructed lake landscapes, self-portraits as reflections on the essence of the self and nature: these are the central motifs that preoccupied the Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918) throughout his life.
In the early phase of the film, as early as 1896, Hodler did not miss the opportunity to stage himself in the hustle and bustle of hat-waving visitors and artist colleagues at the opening ceremony of the Geneva National Exhibition. The facial features and stature of the slender man with beard, dressed in suit and melon, correspond to those he himself drew of himself in his self-portraits. The contours of his eyes and ears have the same shape as in contemporary photographs. The scene immortalized on celluloid, which Hodler's moving image transmits, was documented by the artist himself in his notes. It was taken around the time when the Thun-born painter's high-altitude flight was approaching an abrupt decline.
At first the young Hodler, who had grown up in poor circumstances, had been encouraged as an extraordinary, promising talent. He received the undivided support of the academies and art critics, and was offered teaching positions and solo exhibitions. With his panoramic landscape paintings, he quickly achieved prosperity in the Geneva art scene. Hodler travelled throughout Europe and soon became the most renowned painter in Switzerland. Even today his paintings still fetch record prices: In 2007, Lake Geneva from Saint-Prex achieved an auction result of over 10 million euros, making it the most expensive painting in Switzerland.
With the outbreak of the Second World War the tide finally turned. Hodler's criticism of the Germans' aggressive actions, especially their bombing of Reims Cathedral, made him a target of attacks by the German press. The Munich Secession did not miss the opportunity to defame the artist in public. While the circle around the Blauer Reiter, including Alexej von Jawlensky, Franz Marc, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, organized joint exhibitions of German, Dutch, Russian and French artists, the accredited Munich artistic elite fell into nationalist propaganda, describing Hodler's statement as an "expression of spiteful sentiment":"Anyone who lives in Switzerland, who has a German-sounding name and does not want to understand what is at stake in this war, and does not know how much our Germany means for the morality of Europe, indeed, that the safeguarding of the highest cultural goods depends on our victory, lacks the inner education that makes the great artist in the first place.“ Hodler's exclusion from the most important artists' associations was the immediate consequence. The painting Auszug der deutschen Studenten in den Freiheitskrieg von 1813, a jewel of the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, had to be taken down and sold. Hodler's international career was thus ended. Only his Swiss compatriots preserved the memory of the Symbolist, to whom exhibitions in the world's most famous museums are dedicated today.
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.jpg "Lake Thun with Symmetrical Reflection by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Autumn Evening by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Lake Geneva with Mont-Blanc in Morning Light by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Blooming Cherry Tree by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Beech Forest by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Lake Geneva, Seen from Chexbres by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Lake Thun with Symmetrical Reflection before Sunrise by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Lake Thun with Stockhorn Range by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Departure of Jena Students to the War of Liberation by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Lake Geneva with Mont-Blanc in Morning Light by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Snow in Engadin by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Good Samaritan by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Spring by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Reader by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Black Lütschine by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Landscape near Geneva by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Jena Student by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Lake Thun with Stockhorn Range by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Shoemaker by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Woodcutter by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Maggia Delta before Sunrise by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Gantrisch Range by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Study for")
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.jpg "The Woodcutter by Ferdinand Hodler")
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_(Suisse)_(Etang_Long_Crans_Montana)_Peintu_-_(MeisterDrucke-1313577).jpg "Etang Long Crans Montana by Ferdinand Hodler by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Weisshorn from Montana by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Joyous Woman by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Dents du Midi Seen from Chesières by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Chestnut Avenue near Biberist by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Grand Muveran by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Vaud Alps from the Rochers de Naye. 1917 by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Grammont by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Road to Evordes by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Stockhorn Mountains and Lake Thun, 1911 by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Bare Tree by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Sensation by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Sunset at Lake Geneva by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Eiger, Monk and Jungfrau above the Sea of Fog by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Forest with Mountain Stream by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Dents du Midi from Chesières by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Sunset at Lake Geneva from Caux by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Rhythmic Landscape at Lake Geneva by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Reaper by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Flower Meadow, ca 1901 by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Splendor of Lines; Linienherrlichkeit by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Enchanted Boy by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Lake Geneva from St Prex by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Lake Geneva in the Evening from Chexbres by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Lake Thun from Lessigen by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Tree by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Landscape at Lake Geneva by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Portrait of Käthe von Bach by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Freiburg Bull by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Lake Geneva with the Savoy Alps by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Wetterhorn by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Grindelwald Glacier by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Beech forest by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Willow Trees at the Rhone by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Thunersee with Reflection by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Dents Blanches by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Grammont in the Morning Sun. 1917 by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Lake Geneva with Mont-Blanc at Dawn by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Transfiguration by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Portrait Study for")
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.jpg "Evening Mist at Lake Thun by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Andey Mountain, View from Bonneville by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Parisian Self-Portrait by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Thunersee with the Stockhorn Mountains by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Small Lakes by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Part of the Rhône by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Speaker by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Small Plane Tree by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Lake Geneva, Seen from Chexbres, 1905 by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Landscape near Caux with Rising Clouds by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Lake Geneva with Mont-Blanc at Dawn by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Night, 1890 by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Seated Female Nude with Raised Arms by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Truth II by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Night by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Dream of the Shepherd by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Disillusioned Souls by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Valentine Gode-Darel One Day Before Her Death by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Source by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Study for Day by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Song from Afar, 1906 by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Tired of Life, after 1892 by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Landscape in the Swiss Alps by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Disappointed Soul by Ferdinand Hodler")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-88594).jpg "The Dream, 1897 by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Weary of Life by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "View to Infinity by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "The Disillusioned One by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait, 1912 by Ferdinand Hodler")
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.jpg "Eiger, Monk and Jungfrau in Morning Sun by Ferdinand Hodler")
.jpg "Lake Geneva with Mont-Blanc in Morning Red by Ferdinand Hodler")
.jpg "Lake Thun with Niesen by Ferdinand Hodler")
.jpg "The Grammont by Ferdinand Hodler")