Ferdinand Hodler vs. Gustave Courbet
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Ferdinand Hodler
1853 – 1918
Ferdinand Hodler was a Swiss painter. He is one of the best-known Swiss painters of the nineteenth century. His early works were portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings in a realistic style.
"The artist's mission is to give shape to what is eternal in nature, to reveal its inherent beauty; he sublimates the shapes of the human body. He shows an enlar…"
Gustave Courbet
1819 – 1877
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists. His independence set an example that was important to later artists, such as the Impressionists and the Cubists.
"..there's nothing harder in the world than making art, particularly when no one understands it. Women want portraits without shadow, men want to be dressed up i…"
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