Ferdinand Hodler: 85+ Art Nouveau Reproductions
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Ferdinand Hodler: 85+ Art Nouveau Reproductions Details
FERDINAND HODLER Art Book contains 85+ professionally color corrected reproductions of portraits, landscapes and genre scenes with title,date and interesting facts page below. Book includes Table of Contents, thumbnail gallery and is formatted for all Kindle readers and Tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing).BORN: March 14, 1853 in Bern, Switzerland.DIED: May 20, 1918 in Geneva, Switzerland.MOVEMENT: Art NouveauINTERESTING FACTS:§ Hodler lost all of his family to tuberculosis when he was young.§ Hodler’s early art training was from his stepfather, a decorative painter. He was then sent to apprentice under Ferdinand Sommer in Thun, Switzerland.§ In 1873, Hodler studied under Barthélemy Menn at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Geneva.§ In 1914, Hodler’s work was excluded from German art museums due to his opposition of Germany’s atrocities during the war.NOTABLE WORKS:Night, Ahasuerus, The Consecrated One and Woman in Ecstasy.
Reviews
A very good series of reproductions covering a large selection of Hodlers' paintings, reproduced in good colour.There is a list of the titles and dates of all the actual reproductions, at the beginning of the book, followed by pages of thumbnails, one for each included print.However, each title does not give a page number for the reproduction it refers to; in fact there are no page numbers in the entire book. When each title, or thumbnail, is clicked on, one is taken directly to the respective reproduction. This is a very nice feature when you know the title of the reproduction that you wish to view. However, it is more cumbersome when searching through the 85+ very small thumbnails, for a reproduction that you want to view, but whose title is unknown or has been forgotten.The greatest problem is when browsing the reproductions inside the book, as each reproduction 'stands by itself', without title, date or any other manner of identifying any particular reproduction. So that you are lost if you need to know the title of a particular work. It is far too problematical to have to count through up to 85+ thumbnails, and then to repeat the count through the same number of titles in alphabetically consecutive order, in order to discover the title of the thumbnail that is being viewed: assuming you have managed to identify that correct thumbnail from the reproduction that you were originally viewing in the first place, and now wish to identify.This is all a little convoluted and would have been perfect, and therefore deserving of 5 stars, if primarily, the title and date of each work was printed below each reproduction. Any additional information, such as size, medium, location of original artwork, would also not be amiss, though not strictly necessary as that can always be hunted down on the net, once armed with the title and date.Otherwise a very good series of art books from the Ankele's, and very reasonably priced, but the above criticism is applicable to the 18 different books of their's that I have bought; apart from the title 'Johannes Vermeer', which has the title and date below each painting, and is also preceded by a page with other relevant information regarding that work. It would be perfect if every one of their books were laid out in this same manner, for ease of viewing. Perhaps it is due to the fact that there are only 40 reproductions in that book?