HODLER, FERDINAND

(Bern 1853 - 1918 Geneva)

Double study for Eurythmie. 1894.

Pencil on paper.

Monogrammed lower right: F. H.

25 x 18.5 cm (visible measurements). The frame is probably from the period circa 1900/1910.

The drawing is registered in the Swiss Institute for Art Research as a work by the hand of Ferdinand Hodler.Provenance:- Albert Schmidt Collection, Geneva.- Kurt Meissner Collection, Zurich, 1971.- Acquired from the above and hitherto in the same Swiss private collection.Exhibited:Bern, 20.8.-23.10.1921, Hodler Gedächtnisausstellung, Kunstmuseum Bern, No. 692 (label verso).Literature:Mandach, Carl von: Illustrierter Katalog zu Hodler Gedächtnisausstellung, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern 1921, p. 48, No. 692.