The Day I, 1899, oil on canvas, 160 x 340 cm
Bern Museum of Fine Art
Love (middle pair), 1907/08, oil on canvas, 145 x 175 cm
Private collection
Songs from afar, 1906, oil on canvas, 140 x 120 cm
St Gallen Museum of Fine Art
The Weisshorn from Montana, 1915, oil on canvas, 65.5 x 80.5 cm
Folkwang Museum, Essen
Glance to infinity, 1916, oil on canvas, 138 x 246 cm
Winterthur Museum of Fine Art, (Gift Gallery Association, Friends of the Art Museum Winterthur)
Portrait of Hélène Weiglé, 1888, oil on canvas, 88.5 x 69.5 cm
Städel Museum, Frankfurt (Photo: Ursula Edelmann/ARTOTHEK)
Lake Thun with Stockhorn range, 1904, oil on canvas, 71 x 105 cm
Christoph Blocher collection
The holy hour, 1911, oil on canvas, 187 x 230 cm
Foundation for Art, Culture and History, Winterthur
The frustrated souls, 1892, oil on canvas, 120 x 299 cm
Bern Museum of Fine Art, Bern
Lake Geneva from Chexbres, 1911, oil on canvas, 80 x 129 cm
Private collection
Self-portrait, 1912, oil on canvas, 40.5 x 31.5 cm
Glarner collection, Glarus Museum of Fine Art
Valentine Godé-Darel in sickbed, 1914, oil on canvas, 63 x 86 cm
Solothurn Museum of Fine Art, Dübi-Müller collection
A symbolic vision
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The exhibition “Ferdinand Hodler. A symbolic vision” at the Bern Museum of Fine Art includes more than 150 major works from all phases of the 19th-century painter.
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