Heilige Stunde

1907; revised in 1913

Ferdinand Hodler1853 Bern – 1918 Genf
We have 146 artworks by Ferdinand Hodler online.
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The first main version of this composition, for which there are numerous studies and life-size individual figures. A six-figure version is in the Kunstmuseum Solothurn, a four-figure version with a red background is in the SKKG Winterhut (Foundation for Art, Culture and History, former Stoll Collection). In 1911 Hodler retouched the two outer figures, especially the one on the right, for which his wife had been sititng as a model; the original condition is preserved in a photograph (Ferdinand Hodler (exh. cat. Zurich/Berlin, National Gallery/Paris, Musée du Petit Palais 1983), fig. 193).
Also known as
Holy Hour Heure sacrée
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
image: 182 x 223 cm
Inventory number
833
Credit line
Kunsthaus Zürich, 1907