L'Étudiant/The Student, Autoportrait [1874]

Artist: Ferdinand Hodler

“O unworn world enrapture me, encapture me in a web
Of fabulous grass and eternal voices by a beech,
Feed the gaping need of my senses, give me ad lib
To pray unselfconsciously with overflowing speech
For this soul needs to be honoured with a new dress woven
From green and blue things and arguments that cannot be proven.”
~ Patrick Kavanaugh
[The Beech Forest (detail), 1885 - Ferdinand Hodler] 

• There are many reasons to celebrate and remember Patrick Kavanagh. First and foremost, for his beautiful, plain-speaking poems with their powerful complications and formal sense of adventure – as in the Canal Bank sonnets. But for something else as well. In his journey into his own space, Kavanagh gave a radical and influential witness of the poet’s independence from tradition and objectification. Like his poems, that influence, that witness, remains – still making and remaking a future for Irish poetry. More: https://www.poetryireland.ie/writers/articles/patrick-kavanagh-fifty-years-on 

• At the end of the nineteenth century Hodler was one of the leading Symbolist painters. His creative force, his taste for decoration and his simplified painting are reminiscent of Rodin and Puvis de Chavannes, the undisputed masters with whom he is often compared. More: https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/events/exhibitions/archives/exhibitions-archives/browse/6/page/0/article/ferdinand-hodler-7814.html?S=&cHash=9d8469fc8b&print=1&no_cache=1& 

Ferdinand Hodler: The Beech Forest, 1885.

Valentine Godé-Darel with her Hair Disheveled, 1918
Ferdinand Hodler

lessons-in-fortification:

Josef Albers
Structural Constellation “To Ferdinand Hodler”
1954

The Jungfrau Massif from Mürren, Ferdinand Hodler

‘Die Nacht’

Artist: Ferdinand Hodler (1853–1918)
Date: 1889-1890
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 116.5 × 299 cm
Location: Bern, Switzerland

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