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The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten) Ferdinand Hodler Ferdinand Hodler Paintings, Symbolist Art, Ferdinand Hodler, Art Learning, Figurative Kunst, Aubrey Beardsley, Art Et Illustration, The Shepherd, Art And Illustration

The Artist: Born in 1853 to a carpenter in Bern, Hodler apprenticed in Thun under his stepfather, the decorative painter Gottlieb Schüpbach (1814–1873), and then with Ferdinand Sommer (1822–1901), a specialist in picturesque Alpine views, before departing in 1871 for Geneva, the artistic center of Switzerland

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Ferdinand Hodler Ferdinand Hodler, Felix Vallotton, Aubrey Beardsley, John Byrne, Winterthur, Instant Art, Post Impressionism, Gustav Klimt, Bern

Hodler was born in Berne, the eldest of six children. By the time Hodler was eight years old, he had lost his father and two younger brothers to tuberculosis. His mother remarried to a decorative painter, but in 1867 she too died of tuberculosis.Eventually the disease killed all of Hodler's remaining siblings, instilling in the artist a powerful consciousness of mortality. Before he was ten, Hodler received training in decorative painting from his stepfather, and was subsequently sent to…

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